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from Reagan to Obama

For those of you pleased to see the language from President Obama about reducing waste in the budget, I recommend a book from 1986

The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed by David Stockman

While you may not agree with everything in the book, it paints a good picture of how the Reagan revolutionaries came into office, started striking out obsolete programs from the budget (rural electrification, anyone?) and then hit an absolute dead-end wall when they tried to push those cuts through Congress.

Labels: obama, politics, reagan, united states

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