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To: slacker711 who wrote (132908)	3/12/2010 9:44:20 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541025

What did Reagan deregulate that prospered in a sustainable way? The stuff that comes to mind all crashed eventually, but maybe I am missing something.

To: slacker711 who wrote (132908)	3/12/2010 9:53:12 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541025

and the fact that they didnt do it led to Reagan. It goes beyond the budget though, thirty years of steady increases in government regulation also contributed to the backlash. Slacker, it wasn't inevitable that it led to Reagan. And a good deal of that increase in government regulation was necessary. Let's not forget that the Cuyahoga River was on fire in the 1960 from all the pollution. Air and water quality was badly deteriorating, and it was a Republican president that created the EPA and signed the original Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act. Although today's Republicans now say that he was really a Democrat, Nixon was just responding to real problems. Instead of working to construct responsible and effective regulation, the Reagan wing of the Republican Party just fought it in the name of "smaller government." This was irresponsible, has made the deficits worse than they should be, and made regulation less effective than it should be. As Obama has said more than once, we shouldn't be aiming for "smaller" or "larger" government, we should be aiming for "smarter" government. We should recognize real problems, and try to solve them intelligently.