Ronald Reagan vs Barack Obama

Ronald Reagan:

• Gave amnesty to undocumented aliens;
• Grew the size of the federal government and the budget;
• Added a whole new cabinet agency;
• Added tens of thousands of government workers to the federal payroll;
• Tripled the federal deficit;
• Expanded Social Security with a big fat tax increase;
• Raised corporate taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars;
• Raised taxes on gasoline;
• Signed into law the largest tax increase in history;
• Supported federal handgun controls;
• Called for a world without nuclear weapons.

Barack Obama

• Passed health reform;
• Stimulus package pumped over $100 billion into crumbling infrastructure;
• $60 billion for renewable energy sources;
• Expanded state children’s health insurance for 4 million kids;
• Signed the Lilly Leadbetter Act, insuring equal pay for women for equal work;
• Signed nuclear reduction treat with Russia to reduce each country’s nuclear weapons stock by a third;
• Created new nuclear non-proliferation agreement designed to keep nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists;
• Signed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act aka the Matthew Shepherd Act;
• FDA permitted, for the first time, to regulate tobacco;
• Dismantled the Minerals Management Service;
• Fired two wartime generals in little more than a year;
• Overhauled the student loan program;
• Cancelled weapons program that was bloated, unnecessary and totally irrelevant to the two wars we are involved in;
• Don’t ask; don’t tell;
• Closing Gittmo.