Reagan was not the Messiah that Republicans and conservatives make him out. He was an acting President uttering the lines furnished him by the director(s). By the time he left office during his term America borrowed more money that had ever been borrowed cumulatively in the history of the nation. I have always believed, still do that he was one of the most ineffective, and consequently, one of the poorest Presidents of the USA. I have convinced many of my friends of the same opinion, even though I have more republican friends than democrats.