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Reagan's poor policies, such as bloating the national defense, drastically cutting social services, and making illegal arms-for-hostages deals, led the country into record deficits and global embarrassment.
The end of the Cold War can be directly attributed to Reagan's defense budget (although it should have been drastically cut afterwards), cutting social services is a partisan issue that I don't want to get into, and the Iran-
Contra wasn't even that big of a deal.
He SHOULD have cut social service spending. Defense is a legitimate function of government. Social Security is less so. Medical spending is down there with social security.
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