Following President Obama’s remarks on the economy yesterday, Sarah Palin posted a note on her Facebook page providing her own take on how to best combat record unemployment numbers. Her solution? Be more like Ronald Reagan!
In his speech, Obama announced an economic forum focusing on unemployment: “We are open to any demonstrably good idea to supplement the steps we’ve already taken to put America back to work. That’s what this forum is about.”
For her part, Palin praises the President “for acknowledging today that ‘there are limits to what government can and should do’ to ease our 10.2% unemployment rate – the highest it’s been since 1983.” She continues:
I also applaud his call for suggestions and expression of openness to considering ‘any demonstrably good idea.’ Taking him at his word, I’d like to suggest this one: let’s learn from history and follow the example of the man who occupied the White House in 1983 and was able to transform an even worse recession than the one we’re currently experiencing into the largest peacetime economic expansion in American history.
And who is that man? Why, it’s Ronald Reagan of course!: “When you realize the magnitude of President Reagan’s achievements, there is absolutely no reason why anyone would ignore his ‘demonstrably good’ example.”
She concludes: “If you want lasting economic expansion and prosperity, get the federal government’s budget under control. Instead of more pork-laden stimulus plans, let the free market correct itself. That’s what Reagan did, and history proves it worked.”
