| No. They have odd ideas about what constitutes "success". Rather than applying purely economic measurements, they try to bring in normative concepts like "fairness" and "social justice"...
When one considers the economic climate which preceded the Reagan Presidency, there is little question that broadly speaking the overall Reagan attitude toward the economy was beneficial. ( Individual policies are another matter; they seldom have measurable effects on economic conditions, and when they do it's usually indeterminate in advance whether they'll be good or bad. ) |