Ideology of Ronald Reagan - Essay Example

President Reagan indeed continued the policy of Jimmy Carter, the previous president, to increase safety regulations.

It is true that among the leading opponents of Reagan’s re-election effort in 1984 were women and minorities.

Although Reagan was re-elected in 1984 by an overwhelming majority; he lost only his opponent’s home state which was the District of Columbia and the Democratic opponent was Former vice-president Walter E Mondale.

During Reagan’s Reagan’s second term, it was not true that there was a declining wealth for the middle class.

It is true that in 1981, the Reagan administration eliminated 1 million food stamp recipients.

In 1984, Congress voted to stop US aid to the Contras after the CIA mined Nicaraguan harbors. This Congressional measure was called the United Nicaraguan Opposition.

240 American marines were killed in a terrorist bombing in 1983 at the Beirut barrack bombings at Lebanon during a Lebanese civil war.

During Reagan’s presidency, the US trade deficit soared; and the US became a Debtor nation.

It is true that during the Reagan presidency, higher-paying, unionized factory jobs decreased while lower-paying service jobs increased.

It is true that during Reagan’s presidency, the standard of living of divorced women declined while that of divorced men increased; in 1983, more than 50% of all adult American women held jobs.

In the Iran-Contra scandal, White House officials sold arms to Iran and diverted the proceeds to buy guns for the Contras, despite congressional prohibitions.

Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, and Ronald Reagan, the US president believed in growing the welfare state.

President Reagan, in an attempt to undermine Soviet power, supported the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan and solidarity election action in Poland.

The Supreme Court justices appointed during Reagan’s presidency were Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, William Rehnquist, and Antonin Scalia.

Reagan rejected the true man doctrine policy which earlier Cold War presidents had supported; he also rejected the acronym of nuclear policy.

In 1976, Reagan hoped to upset the incumbent president, Gerald Ford, to gain the Republican Party nomination.

Ronald Reagan’s economic policies about federal income taxes were that there was a massive reduction or cut in marginal tax rates of income from capital and labor. He also set policies that increased spending on defense and reduced the spending on long social programs. These expansionary fiscal policies, increased poverty levels, and the national income level of the country also decreased. Most of the congress’s reaction to these policies was that they did not show their support, they were indifferent to Reagan (Jim, 11).

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