Reagan Got It, Once

Some memorable quotes from Ronald Reagan's speech introducing Herbert Humphrey:

High prices have not been caused by higher wages, but by bigger and bigger profits.

The Republican promises sounded pretty good... But what has happened since then?

Prices have climbed to the highest level in history, although the death of the OPA was supposed to bring prices down through "the natural process of free competition".

Labor has been handcuffed by the vicious Taft-Hartley law.

Social Security benefits have been snatched away from almost a million workers by the Gearhart bill.

Fair employment practices, which had worked so well during war time, have been abandoned.

Veterans' pleas for low-cost homes have been ignored and many people are still living in made-over chicken coops and garages.

Tax reduction bills have been passed to benefit the higher income brackets alone. The average worker saved only $1.73 a week.

In the false name of economy, millions of children have been deprived of milk, once provided through the federal school lunch program.

This was the pay-off of the Republicans promises...

At the end, he summarizes major initiatives

adequate low-cost housing

civil rights

prices people can afford to pay

a labor movement freed of the Taft-Hartley law