Lawmakers - October 14, 1982
Cokie Roberts - Republicans worried that the midterm elections are a referendum on Reaganomics and the response will be "no", so are pouring money and the TV power of Reagan into the campaign.
Use catalog # 459769 for complete speech. Clip of President Ronald Reagan - Address to the Nation on the Economy October 13, 1982. Tonight, in homes across this country, unemployment is the problem uppermost on many people's minds. Getting Americans back to work is an urgent priority for all of us and especially for this administration. But remember, you can't solve unemployment without solving the things that caused it, the out-of-control government spending, the skyrocketing inflation and interest rates that led to unemployment in the first place. Unless you get at the root causes of the problem, which is exactly what our economic program is doing. you may be able to temporarily relieve the symptoms, but you'll never cure the disease. You may even make it worse.
Use catalog # 459770 for complete speech. October 13, 1982 Democratic Response to Ronald Reagan. Senator Donald Riegle (D - Michigan) Every month since the President and the Republicans got they program adopted a year and a half ago, unemployment has sky-rocketed. Why would the administration want to stay this course? Maybe because so many of the top officials in the administration are millionaires who have no understanding of what life is like for most Americans. Maybe it is because they have their eyes so fixed on the tickertape on Wall Street that they don t see the growing pile of pink slips and foreclosure notices shutting down Main Street.