🌱 The Shadow of Ronald Reagan Is Costing Us Dearly

Regan started it and democrats kept with it.

Cutting social programs failed

conservatives have promoted the falsehood that universal welfare programs reward Americans for not working

implied that the inability to make ends meet was a moral problem

a universal safety net that covers the needs of Americans as a right, not a privilege, and a revised tax structure that asks the wealthiest Americans to support the work force that made them rich

Ten years ago, Americans were already sicker, less educated and poorer than the citizens of most other industrialized country

The myths of American individualism planted and nurtured under Mr. Reagan continue to cost us dearly as a nation