Russia, Russia, Russia- All Things Russia/Trump Related

Thanks for clarification and openness regarding your personal situation. 

I haven't studied the specifics of the historical US budgets.  Reagan is very well regarded by economists when it comes to successful economic management during his terms.

Going on memory here, Maggie was taking on the Coal Miners and pissing them off, Gorbochov(Sorry if misspelled) was leading the isolationist and uncooperative Soviet union and the Cold War was an extension of Superpower Egos gone mad. Working class folks here had had enough of Fraser and Sent Hawke in.  These were definitely times when Media bias affected information and understanding of what was going on in the world. I have no idea who was leading West Germany. 

I think the soviets boycotted the LA Olympics in the same year that The Terminator hit the big screen. The reason for them doing that was because the USA had boycotted the Moscow Olympics 4 years earlier and that was in protest of the Soviets invading Afghanistan. 
Anyway
The world owes a lot to Reagan's brand of international relations. It involved encouraging another "superpower" to Tear down a Wall. who historically for 40 years or more had been combatant and hostile to the Western values and policies of which the US President represented. Gorbochov's role of course was instrumental in seeing reason an dismantling the Soviet Union but to think that he respected Reagan enough to work with him is pretty impressive on Reagan's part. Trust needs to be earned and both leaders took the Risk and it paid off.

Yet again, I digress.
My revenue comment was relating to the nation Debt. It still needs to be paid off. The tax situation and Social Reforms and impact to the Economy, I don't have an appreciation of how changes impacted every US citizen. I stand by my comment about Obama's management of the Economy based on the indicators.  
 
There is a lot of social injustice in the USA. That's one of those wishy washy concepts which is really difficult to appreciate. Everyone has the right to education and the right to make a go of it, I think. 
People just need to put effort in and get off their lazy arses or lazy donkey's as the Americans say, sorry, asses. They've only got themselves to blame right? Wrong!
There's a good lot of people who are disenfranchised and caught in an intergenerational rut of no hope and crime.  Privelege is not egalitarian. Yes - plenty of greedy and lazy people who do have themselves to blame as well. Every opportunity who like to play the victim too.  
   
We hear stories at this end from the possibly biased media suggesting Crime rates increase prior to the winter because Prison is more comfortable or people who are unemployed getting knocked by a subway train, pleading not to be treated citing reason as inability to afford it. I don't know how true it is. Where there's smoke there's fire though. Why would these people have any respect or love of the nation? 

Relating that welfare is not the responsibility of governments 

There is an economic cost of the impact of these people , Crime - incarceration, cash jobs, exploited as slave labour and there is benefit of breaking the cycle.  Obama's ideology was to empower the next generation of Americans, through government backed initiatives set up to empower them. 
Providing additional privilege to those who seemingly have it in the first place at the expense of other Americans is never going to be popular, it's debatable whether it's a sunk cost and waste or the Government has a mandate of creating systems which protect the welfare of all of it's citizens.