Existing comment:
"Can you think of a time when any family, thirsting for opportunity, left a democracy to live in a country that was not free?"
-- Ronald Reagan, July 4, 1984
The Economics of Oppression:
The economic system of the Soviet Union was the antithesis of free enterprise. Ronald Reagan held a deep faith in free enterprise and open markets, and he looked upon the Soviet system as an abomination. Workers were assigned jobs and quotas. Much of the fruits of their labors went to supporting the bureaucrats of the central government and Soviet military aggression abroad.
Ronald Reagan also knew the state-controlled economy of the Soviet Union was simply inferior and could never keep up with the economic engine of the United States. |