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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (43688)	6/12/2010 1:18:46 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71588

Well, Reagan inherited a rather bad economy. What he did was "make it worse". He let Volcker turn a bad economy into a horrendous economy. All the while he was blaming it on Carter. I believe Reagan's approvals got down to the mid 30's around 1982. This time it CERTAINLY wouldn't have been as easy as it was back then, but there were ways to play this that could have protected the economic infrastructure without letting everything go down the tubes and STILL make it look like you were doing things that people wanted but they'd HAVE to suffer a great deal while you were cleaning up the messes of the previous administration. It would have taken a heck of a politician to pull it off but it's "possible" it could have worked. Obama was NEVER up to the job.