A personal note: My new grandson

Here's a link to some photos of my newest grandson, Nathan Timothy Corley, born at 10:16 PM (Central Time) on 05 November 2009.

Thanks.

Sound, stable, and predictable monetary policy

"[A] sound, stable, and predictable monetary policy is essential to restoring economic health." -- Ronald Reagan (1980)

A Real Plan for a Real Future...

"My plan… is rooted in a strategy for economic growth, a program that sees the American economic system as it is - a huge, complex, dynamic system - that can work if the American people get a chance to work….

"At the heart of [my] strategy for economic growth are eight major steps:

1. We must keep the rate of growth of government spending at reasonable and prudent levels.
   
2. We must reduce personal income tax rates and accelerate and simplify depreciation schedules for business in an orderly, systematic way to provide incentives to work, savings, investment, and productivity.
   
3. We must review regulations that effect the economy, and change or eliminate them to encourage economic growth.
   
4. We must establish a stable, sound, and predictable monetary policy.
   
5. We must promote the export of American products abroad.
   
6. We must revitalize American industry.
   
7. We must adopt an energy policy that will allow our economy to grow, and our standard of living to rise.
   
8. And we must restore confidence by following a consistent national economic policy that does not change from month to month." -- Ronald Reagan (1980)

American economic progress... silenced

"[T]he mighty music of American economic progress has been all but silenced by [what has gone on in Washington]. [Elections] will determine whether the nation and the world will ever hear that great sound; will determine if the dinner table of your home and the supermarkets of your neighborhood will ever again be places where plans can be made and necessities purchased without the gnawing doubt and, yes, fear, brought by… inflation and unemployment." -- Ronald Reagan (1980)

To see the American spirit unleashed once again...

"I would like to see this country become once again a country where a little six-year-old girl can grow up knowing the same freedom that I knew when I was six years old, growing up in America. If this is the America you want for yourself and your children; if you want to restore government not only of and for, but by the people; to see the American spirit unleashed once again; to make this land a shining, golden hope [as] God intended it to be...." -- Ronald Reagan (1976)

We created government as our servant, not our master

"[In America], we gave birth to an entirely new concept in man's relation to man. We created government as our servant, beholden to us and possessing no powers except those voluntarily granted to it by us. Now a self-anointed elite in our nation's capital would have us believe we are incapable of guiding our own destiny. They practice government by mystery, telling us it's too complex for our understanding. Believing this, they assume we might panic if we were to be told the truth about our problems.

"Why should we become frightened? No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than the living Americans - the Americans living in this land today. There isn't any problem we can't solve if government will give us the facts. Tell us what needs to be done. The get out the way and let us have at it." -- Ronald Reagan (1976)

Quality has declined as federal intervention has increased

"Schools - in America we created at the local level and administered at the local level for many years the greatest public school system in the world. Now through something called federal aid to education, we have something called federal interference, and education has been the loser. Quality has declined as federal intervention has increased." -- Ronald Reagan (1976)