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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (121163)	9/19/2012 10:56:50 AM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Reagan started the thinking that Govt. is the problem, the root cause of the problems today. True but the country was in a far different place in 1980. Labor was in a far stronger position and the record wealth disparity of today was a distant memory as corporate power had wained and WS greed was nonexistent. Many who still remembered the great depression and it's causes were in power.. Today it has flipped to the other extreme..we actually need some combination of a Bernie Sanders and Teddy Roosevelt type to stand up to today's robber barons, continued gutting of our middle class and structural problems never addressed. Not even an FDR alone would be enough these days.. Laughable if anyone thinks Reagan would actually be the answer today good as he was for his time and place..

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (121163)	9/19/2012 11:07:50 AM
From: Sr K	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

That line was from Reagan's inauguration, January 20, 1981. reagan.utexas.edu In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.