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Do you have any clue as to what state this country was in prior to Reagan taking office? Much of what you sited was reprocussions of the late seventies and early eighties. We were in the more heated periods of the cold war, the economy was shit, gas was having to be rationed, the military was severly underfunded and outdated compared to the Russians, and terrorism was really starting to gain a foot hold in the world. You must take the whole picture, not just some excerpts from a text.