Ronald Reagan Quotes
The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.
This is a statement that in the early 21st century would be made only by ultra liberals. But in the in the late 1940’s this was not only standard democratic party thinking, but a large number of Republicans thought of the Government as the employer of last resort including their Presidential standard bearer.
This surprising quotation, along with others a far from main steam American views (See {623830} ) assured her election defeat.
Many of the very rich agreed with Lind on this point. So did many Americans with good jobs. However there were very few Americans who did not have good jobs who agreed with this point of view. In most industrialized countries ,most workers spend one-hired of their entire adult lives working. If we do not count sleeping time, it is more like half. It is hard to believe for most people that a person could have a good life when half of his/her waking hours are spend in a not very good situation. Many of Lind’s critics observed that this was the Classic Christian theological view until recent times that every person should accept his station and be happy in at as that is what God ordained.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975.
