@ Jake:
Fact is ....... Reagan set this country on a massive upward spiral towards a great economy. Clinton and his Dems rode the Reaganomics wave and subsequently ran it into the ground. (I witnessed this happening, perhaps you were too young to notice or care) Bush was unable to recover it because he was too focused on 9/11 and subsequent events. 0bama is just making it worse. People are scared nowadays. They are afraid of what's to come because 0bama and his party of corruption are too busy lining theirs and their friends pockets.
For the record, I'm not a big fan of Reagan. He did a couple of things that I absolutely despise!!
Reagan blew the first credit bubble. Well not Reagan exactly. His administration launched a holy war on state banking laws (first chief of staff was a JPMorgan guy) and he appointed Greenspan.
There are things to admire about President Reagan, there are things that are not to be admired about his administration.
Tactically he handled foreign policy extremely well. Domestically, he was the first President to offer amnesty, overturned state banking laws despite claiming to be a state rights activist, and appointed the biggest douche to sit in the Federal Reserve Chairman seat in history.