Tear Down This Myth: How Reagan's Legacy Haunts Our Future | Media and Technology | AlterNet

REAGAN AND REVISION
It's always sunny at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in California where "The Great Communicator" speaks out from the great beyond. But he leaves out some very important details about his time in office. There's no note about his administration accumulating more debt in real dollars than all the presidents who came before him combined. Or, about the fact that the federal payroll increased from 1981 to 1989. No mention, either, of the Iran-Contra affair, the scandal that almost toppled his presidency. How about the lower class backs he rode, or about who exactly benefited from his tenure, and who is now paying him back by helping construct his memorial? Mum's the word.
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