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Reagan and Kennedy shared many commonalities: economic understanding and a fundamental respect for the goodness of individual Americans. Both cut taxes, both pushed for less violent solutions to international relationship despite "tough guy" appearances to keep the military-industrial-banking-blackOp complex at bay. Reagan nearly shared Kennedy's fate.
Sure, the payroll tax went up thanks to the other party's effort to save SS and M+M. Government spending, especially the boondongle called SDI worked out to be an inflation tax. However, one has to recognize the constraints that Reagan was working under in post-1960's America: JFK was already a precedence for what happens to presidents who dare to fight the complex head-on, and Regan had an ex-head of the Agency waiting as the vice president, one heart beat away from replacing him, and nearly did when the assassination attempt was carried out by some family friend of the waiting. A dead Reagan, like a dead JFK passing presidential power to LBJ, who then immediately expanded US involvement in Vietnam, would not do American any good. Given the nuclear risks during the height of the Cold War, SDI was probably one of the least provocative undertakings and still able to keep the complex at bay via massive pay-off.
Reagan did not have any major war during his 8yr watch . . . quite a contrast to all the other presidents from LBJ to today, excepting Carter (an avowed peace lover, and paid for it with his political career), who was in office for only half as long. Even Grenada, the biggest US military operation overseas during the Reagan years, as bad as it was for Grenadans who died in the operation (counted in dozens, not the thousands to millions during the other presidencies since LBJ), it was a remarkably adroit political move for avoiding massive escalation in the middleast after 200+ US Marines died in the truck bombing. Compare that to LBJ, Nixon, Bush, Clinton and BushII, who all launched massive miilitary operations overseas on pretexts much less than 200+ dead US Marines.
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