Alex Park writes in Mother Jones: Reagan ended his 1988 farewell speech with the memorable line, man is not free unless government is limited. The line is still a rallying cry for the right wing, but the speech came at the end of a long period of government expansion. Under Reagan, the federal workforce increased by about 324,000 to almost 5.3 million people. (The new hires werent just soldiers to fight the communists, either: uniformed military personnel only accounted for 26 percent of the increase.) In 2012, the federal government employed almost a million fewer people than it did in the last year of Reagans presidency.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:55:06 +0000
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