"The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology." Ronald Reagan
Truly Ron Reagan's focus was not on the immediate but the long term. Not the quick fix but corrective actions that would be lasting. Not popularity but principle. Not in easing pain but effecting solutions.
If we had more statesmen of the Ron Reagan caliber today congress would be seriously tackling the problems of healthcare, excessive government, ineffective government schools and repressive taxation.
Our elected officials, if they were of the same mindset of Ronald Reagan, would be crafting legislation that would free us of the restrictions of failed Welfare and Social Security systems, crafting policy that would allow citizens to freely exercise their abilities to meet their needs, pursue their goals and plan their own futures.
A congress made up of representatives who truly cared for their constituents would forcefully put forth a system that collected only revenues needed to operate those government services constitutionally required, not some pork barrel piggybank to lull a weak-minded and selfish people into stuporous appeasement.
No, Ronald Reagan didn't want Americans to feel no pain, but to have the strength and perseverance to fight through pain to victory.

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