I think it is funny that so many people think Ronald Reagan was such a good President. Did you know that when he was President od the Screen Actors Guild he was also an FBI informant. He and his wife turned over names of union members that they though had Communist leaning . The acepted money fron union members ant in turn ruined some careers. 

As President this ,so called great President, really did his damage to the American dream.
Reagan took a lot of the tax money we used for our benefit and dumped it in to investment opportunities for the wealthy . A la "Star Wars" etc .
The funding we agreed to spend on our "not-for-profit health care facilities" and the "national education systems" was blatantly taken away and used in his "trickle down" wealth enhancements for the wealthy .
That put millions of Americans from mental institutions on the streets homeless and without a means to earn a living . American were eating out of garbage cans and sleeping on park and other public benches . To hide what he had done to the most needy he had the benches removed and had the media harass the local governments for allowing poverty to be seen .

Our economy has been on a downhill slide since Reagan as more and more of our tax dollars have been used for "wars on" and other programs to enhance the wealthy .
Reagan introduced disdain and cruelty toward the needy and the conservatives have perpetuated it .
We now have the most expensive government to operate in our history .as the wealthy get wealthier .