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Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Friday, October 02, 2026
Monday, October 13, 2025
Margaret Thatcher at 100 | Honoring the Iron Lady and Her Friendship with Ronald Reagan
This was indeed a very special relationship! Plus there was the Polish Pope John Paul II. It was a rare meeting of great minds! It was an episode in human history of great accomplishments like none other in recent memory!
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Ronald Reagan's Funniest Jokes Compilation Part 1
Enjoy! There was no other president like him when it comes to telling jokes!
Honey, I forgot to duck!
Monday, May 26, 2025
Timeless Memorial Day Tribute From President Ronald Reagan
Recommendable! Reagan was an orator of the 20th like few others! The last full measure of devotion!
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Education and Respect | Words To Live By with Ronald Reagan
Very recommendable! How did a conservative radio commentator become the governor of California from 1967-1975?
Saturday, February 08, 2025
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Ronald Reagan: A Time for Choosing | Words To Live By
Very recommendable! Have a rendezvous with destiny!
Very timely! Most is still very true today! One of his best speeches! This speech contains many of his famous expressions!
Will President Trump live up to expectations if elected?
Friday, August 16, 2024
The Best of President Reagan's Humor Part 2
Enjoy! He was one of a kind! I cracked up several times. Some of the jokes were familiar to me, but I did not mind hearing them again.
Wednesday, July 03, 2024
Ronald Reagan - Rendezvous With Destiny
Very recommendable! One of Reagan's most famous speeches! Wow, could he be an orator!
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Ronald Reagan: Address on Behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater: "A Time for Choosing"
There are not many speeches by U.S. Presidents that deserve to be remembered! This one by Ronald Reagan given during the 1964 U.S. presidential election campaign is one of them!
Much of what he said in 1964 is still true today!
Enjoy!
"... But I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn't something on which we can base our hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector's share, and yet our government continues to spend $17 million a day more than the government takes in. We haven't balanced our budget 28 out of the last 34 years. We have raised our debt limit three times in the last twelve months, and now our national debt is one and a half times bigger than all the combined debts of all the nations in the world. ...
But the reverse is true. Each year the need grows greater, the program grows greater. We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet. But now we are told that 9.3 million families in this country are poverty-stricken on the basis of earning less than $3,000 a year. Welfare spending is 10 times greater than in the dark depths of the Depression. We are spending $45 billion on welfare. Now do a little arithmetic, and you will find that if we divided the $45 billion up equally among those 9 million poor families, we would be able to give each family $4,600 a year, and this added to their present income should eliminate poverty! Direct aid to the poor, however, is running only about $600 per family. It would seem that someplace there must be some overhead. ...
But the reverse is true. Each year the need grows greater, the program grows greater. We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet. But now we are told that 9.3 million families in this country are poverty-stricken on the basis of earning less than $3,000 a year. Welfare spending is 10 times greater than in the dark depths of the Depression. We are spending $45 billion on welfare. Now do a little arithmetic, and you will find that if we divided the $45 billion up equally among those 9 million poor families, we would be able to give each family $4,600 a year, and this added to their present income should eliminate poverty! Direct aid to the poor, however, is running only about $600 per family. It would seem that someplace there must be some overhead. ...
Not too long ago, a judge called me here in Los Angeles. He told me of a young woman who had come before him for a divorce. She had six children, was pregnant with her seventh. Under his questioning, she revealed her husband was a laborer earning $250 a month. She wanted a divorce so that she could get an $80 raise. She is eligible for $330 a month in the Aid to Dependent Children Program. She got the idea from two women in her neighborhood who had already done that very thing.
Yet anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we are denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we are always "against" things, never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so. ...
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this Earth. Federal employees number 2.5 million, and federal, state, and local, one out of six of the nation's work force is employed by the government. These proliferating bureaus with their thousands of regulations have cost us many of our constitutional safeguards. How many of us realize that today federal agents can invade a man's property without a warrant? They can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let alone a trial by jury, and they can seize and sell his property in auction to enforce the payment of that fine. ...
When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he would rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." ..."
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this Earth. Federal employees number 2.5 million, and federal, state, and local, one out of six of the nation's work force is employed by the government. These proliferating bureaus with their thousands of regulations have cost us many of our constitutional safeguards. How many of us realize that today federal agents can invade a man's property without a warrant? They can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let alone a trial by jury, and they can seize and sell his property in auction to enforce the payment of that fine. ...
When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he would rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." ..."
Wednesday, November 02, 2022
Ronald Reagan on the Johnny Carson show - Big Government, Inflation and Taxes
Enjoy! One of the best U.S. Presidents of the last 50 years and one of the funniest ones too!
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Quote of the day: "... and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan"
These are very true words! A vicious cycle beloved by so many lifelong career politicians and government bureaucrats!
Take e.g. the intention of the EU to ban all combustion engine cars by 2035!
The quote is taken from Ronald Reagan's speech Address on Behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater: "A Time for Choosing"
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Ronald Reagan - Cure Inflation: Say No to Government Spending
Very recommendable! Lots of original and great Ronald Reagan remarks!
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Ronald Reagan's Remarks "The Myth of the Great Society" 1966
Very recommendable! Great early speech! President Reagan was one of the best U.S. presidents of the 20th century and beyond. "We have been sucker Republicans!" and many other memorable remarks! Will the Republicans still or again be sucker Republicans when the Dimocrats stole the 2020 presidential election?
Saturday, October 31, 2020
"A Time for Choosing" A 1964 speech by Ronald Reagan
This famous, stirring, and timeless speech by Ronald Reagan still rings very true today! This perhaps one of Reagan's best speeches! It contains many of Reagan's famous phrases! He was then a fresh former Democrat campaigning for Barry Goldwater' presidential election!
Reagan was the trailblazer for President Trump!
Thursday, July 02, 2020
Ronald Reagan: The Man Behind the Icon
Recommendable! Unfortunately, Simon Whistler says little about Reagan's great penchant for humor!
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Ronald Reagan Interview on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Very recommendable! Contains several original statements and philosophical points (e.g. balanced budget, shut down government and nobody would miss it)! E.g. Reagan's view of what happened in Vietnam after the U.S. withdrawal is spot on!
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Spy Wars with Damian Lewis: The Man Who Saved the World
Highly recommendable! High drama, suspense! The Cuba missile crises was not the only serious brink of a nuclear war crisis between the West and the USSR!
Pre-agreed signal after crossing the Finnish border into safety and freedom: Jean Sibelius Finlandia Suite!
This little known hero (Oleg Gordievsky) who has had to live the rest of
his life under cover in an undisclosed location!
Spy Wars with Damian Lewis: The Man Who Saved the World (Full Episode)
Pre-agreed signal after crossing the Finnish border into safety and freedom: Jean Sibelius Finlandia Suite!
This little known hero (Oleg Gordievsky) who has had to live the rest of
his life under cover in an undisclosed location!
Spy Wars with Damian Lewis: The Man Who Saved the World (Full Episode)
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Monday, December 16, 2019
President Reagan's Remarks Welcoming British Prime Minister Thatcher on ...
Two like minded giants of late 20th century history! The personification of the special relationship between the U.S. and the UK
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