Reply #9: It seems to me that he's talking about fiscal excesses during the 1960s and 1970s [View All]

as he immediately follows those words with a reference to the growth of government. The costly war in Vietnam certainly was one of those excesses in spending. But to suggest that Reagan was the answer to that is just wrong. We got James Watt as the Secretary of the Interior. He was an absolute nut and was an enemy of the environment. Maybe there was a need to address the issue of the growth of government. But Reagan's solution was to slash everything of value while increasing the size of the defense department. I wish Obama hadn't taken this very weird tack, as I was beginning to really like him. Now I have to go back to the point where I have no candidate to support among the major three.