More Excerpts from Ronald Reagan’s Speeches

America’s Strength. Dec. 22, 1976:

Our productivity is phenomenal. We raise 37% more wheat per acre than the national average. We are 6% of the worlds population on only 7% of the worlds lands but we produce almost half the worlds corn, 2/3 of the soy beans, 1/3 or more of the world’s paper, electrical power, college graduates and almost 1/3 of the farm machinery. Just to round it off we make more than 2/3 of the computers and 80% of all the passenger aircraft.

We lead the world in advanced technology; in telecommunications, drilling and mining equipment, medical science and agri-science.

All of this is because our system freed the individual genius of man. Released him to fly as high and as far as his own talent and energy would take him. We allocate resources not by government decisions but by the millions of decisions customers make when they go into the market place to buy. If something seems too high priced we buy something else. Thus resources are steered toward those things the people want most at the price they are willing to pay. It may not be a perfect system but it’s better than any other that’s ever been tried.

No Pay, No Vote.  April 3, 1978

It goes without saying that the US has proven again and again it’s generosity. Other nations owe us tens of billions of dollars but they aren’t asked to pay up. We are first on the scene to bring aid when natural disaster strikes and our Marshal plan and subsequent foreign aid program are unique in all the history of mans relation to man. We helped allies and erstwhile enemies alike with need the only criteria. All of which qualifies us now to make a long overdue move in the United Nations.

Source: Reagan In His Own Hand.

It’s too bad Obama can’t say these things and mean it. I am not saying he should completely emulate President Reagan. No one can do that. A president should be himself. All I am saying is that it’s too bad he can’t love his country faults in all. Even Woodrow Wilson and FDR loved their country in their own big gov’t progressive way.