Il Primo Ministro de Wever sostiene le Nazioni Unite, in contrasto con Trump, per “rispetto reciproco” | VRT NWS: notizie

>This is the first time Prime Minister De Wever has spoken at the UN General Assembly, so he briefly introduces himself. “I’m 54 years old. That means I was a teenager in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was president of this country. A man I admired and still admire,” the Prime Minister begins.

Ronald Reagan, maximum exponent of the cold war military escalation, the neoliberalism, advocating against black people right to vote, cutting down public services, reducing taxes and creating exceptions, and even with all those measures, never controlling deficit and making public debt triple…

>With Reagan, the deficits were exacerbated by the early 1980s recession, which cut into federal revenue.[235] The national debt tripled between the fiscal years of 1980 and 1989, and the national debt as a percentage of the gross domestic product rose from 33 percent in 1981 to 53 percent by 1989. During his time in office, Reagan never fulfilled his 1980 campaign promise of submitting a balanced budget.

>He initially opposed the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, believing that the momentum for establishing the holiday was “based on an image, not reality,”

>Reagan opposed the [Voting Rights Act of 1965](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965),

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Presidency_(1981%E2%80%931989)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Presidency_(1981%E2%80%931989))

Not speaking about Reagan funding the mujahideen in Afghanistan, that later became the Taliban. Indeed Reagan a lot to admire, mr BDW…

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