12.22.2011

1988: Let Them Eat...

Be sure to reach for the Reagan fundie pal brand...
Quotes from Paul Slansky, The Clothes Have No Emperor
12/13 With five weeks left in office, President Reagan delivers his farewell address on domestic policy, in which he continues to deny that his defense spending increases and tax cuts were in any way responsible for the $155 billion deficit, blaming instead an "iron triangle" of congressmen, lobbyists and journalists.

12/22 President Reagan—whose tenure has coincided with a huge increase in the homeless population—uses his last interview with David Brinkley to again claim that many of these unfortunates are homeless "by their own choice," as must be many of the jobless, since he again points out that the Sunday papers are full of want ads.

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