Moving Beyond the Reagan Fairytale
His legacy as a fiscal conservative is as much of a fairytale as his philosophy was. The beacon of small government and fiscal responsibility was actually the man who unnecessarily blew a massive hole in the budget. He's been treated as the Second Coming of Christ on fiscal conservatism, but his record just doesn't live up to the dittohead adulation.
Reagan cut government programs that were helpful to many, and, as you can see below, began an era of reckless spending that was carried on by the Bushes
