There is a wide gulf between image and substance. Toward the end of Reagan's first term, the administration needed to cut government spending , increase taxes or a combination of both-they did none of these. The Reagan administration went on a borrowing spree-which dramatically increased the National Debt. Fiscal responsibility? The Reagan administration also funded Pol Pot, the leader of the brutal Khmer Rouge,that killed almost 2,000,000 of the Cambodian people. Moral Responsibility? If America is to have a future then all myths of the past must be destroyed and we must look for substance in our political leaders.

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