Post Tagged with: "Reagan"

How much do we really spend on welfare?

Steve asked me to make President Reagan’s 1964 Time for Choosing speech applicable for the UK in 2010. In the speech, Reagan posits that if the US were to give their total welfare budget of $45bn to those below the poverty line this would work out at $4,600 per person. Factoring for inflation this would […]

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Yes, we can (Reagan remix)

Via ToryRadio: It is time for us to realise that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes… they just don’t know where to look. See also his farewell address, the address […]

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“The Time for Liberty”: Barr ’08

Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1964, in a speech he wrote himself: You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. […]

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