Ronald Reagan and the People
Imagine living in an America in which people had safety protocols for a nuclear weapon strike. Imagine living with the thought of nuclear attack always on the back of everyone’s mind. These were the thoughts of many American’s before Ronald Reagan took office. “When Ronald Reagan took over the White House, the end of the Cold War not only seemed a very long way off—nobody in fact thought in such terms at the time—but in many respects it actually looked as if the USSR (and not the West) was winning” (Cox, n.d.). What if Ronald Reagan never became president, and the Soviet Union was still alive? Despite the Soviet Union’s collapse, Ronald Reagan was considered a great president of the United States in many other ways. …show more content…
However, he had some different ideas that the people specifically liked, one was his political affiliation. He became an actor when he was in his twenties. At the time, his views were more liberal. But his acting job wasn't making him enough money and he wasn’t a great actor, so he couldn't get any big roles in acting that gave him any real money. So he was hired by General Electric as their spokesman. This is where Ronald Reagan gained an idea of how business worked, and he grew more conservative as time went on ("Ronald Reagan," 2015). “Reagan, I suspect, would not have been dismayed. Indeed, according to one account, he later admitted that working for GE was ‘the second most important eight-year job’ he ever had!” (Cox, n.d.). He had previously had a strong anti-communist view, which pushed him even farther to the right, or the conservative and republican side. This was one part of him that many people really liked, especially because of the previous president, Jimmy Carter, who was a democrat. Under Jimmy Carter the nation had many crises, such as the oil crisis in the Middle East, and the energy crisis at home. Gas prices had increased dramatically. “Carter's approval rating had dropped to 25%, lower than Richard Nixon's during the Watergate scandal” ("General Article," n.d.). The people were sick of Carter. Almost anyone who could’ve ran against him in the next election would have beat him. -Ronald Reagan had many policies that benefitted the people.
One of Ronald Reagan’s most famous policies that even earned its own name were Reaganomics. Reaganomics were his economic policies of cutting taxes. .“Reagan proposed a phased 30% tax cut for the first three years of his Presidency” (ushistory.org, n.d.). What these large tax cuts did was allow big businesses and corporations to
Imagine living in an America in which people had safety protocols for a nuclear weapon strike. Imagine living with the thought of nuclear attack always on the back of everyone’s mind. These were the thoughts of many American’s before Ronald Reagan took office. “When Ronald Reagan took over the White House, the end of the Cold War not only seemed a very long way off—nobody in fact thought in such terms at the time—but in many respects it actually looked as if the USSR (and not the West) was winning” (Cox, n.d.). What if Ronald Reagan never became president, and the Soviet Union was still alive? Despite the Soviet Union’s collapse, Ronald Reagan was considered a great president of the United States in many other ways. …show more content…
However, he had some different ideas that the people specifically liked, one was his political affiliation. He became an actor when he was in his twenties. At the time, his views were more liberal. But his acting job wasn't making him enough money and he wasn’t a great actor, so he couldn't get any big roles in acting that gave him any real money. So he was hired by General Electric as their spokesman. This is where Ronald Reagan gained an idea of how business worked, and he grew more conservative as time went on ("Ronald Reagan," 2015). “Reagan, I suspect, would not have been dismayed. Indeed, according to one account, he later admitted that working for GE was ‘the second most important eight-year job’ he ever had!” (Cox, n.d.). He had previously had a strong anti-communist view, which pushed him even farther to the right, or the conservative and republican side. This was one part of him that many people really liked, especially because of the previous president, Jimmy Carter, who was a democrat. Under Jimmy Carter the nation had many crises, such as the oil crisis in the Middle East, and the energy crisis at home. Gas prices had increased dramatically. “Carter's approval rating had dropped to 25%, lower than Richard Nixon's during the Watergate scandal” ("General Article," n.d.). The people were sick of Carter. Almost anyone who could’ve ran against him in the next election would have beat him. -Ronald Reagan had many policies that benefitted the people.
One of Ronald Reagan’s most famous policies that even earned its own name were Reaganomics. Reaganomics were his economic policies of cutting taxes. .“Reagan proposed a phased 30% tax cut for the first three years of his Presidency” (ushistory.org, n.d.). What these large tax cuts did was allow big businesses and corporations to