claim: "ronald reagan faced an even worse recession" than the current one.
author: sarah palin
evidence_1: oped: cut capital gains to end worse recession than 2008's. our nation is facing  great challenges, but i'm optimistic--ad i know there is a way forward. ronald  reagan faced an even worse recession. he showed us how to get out of one. if  you want real job growth, cut capital gains taxes and slay the death tax once and  for ...
evidence_2: feb 8, 2011 ... in honor of the recent centennial of reagan's birth, we've collected a dozen fact- checks we've published over the last three years that judge the late president and  his legacy. economy • sarah palin: "ronald reagan faced an even worse  recession" than the current one. we used 11 economic factors to ...
evidence_3: may 5, 2011 ... as a result, i predicted that obamanomics would have the opposite results of  reaganomics. that prediction seems to be on track. when president reagan  entered office in 1981, he faced actually much worse economic problems than  president obama faced in 2009. three worsening recessions starting in ...
evidence_4: freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we didn't pass  it on to our children in the bloodstream. it must be fought for, protected, and  handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years  telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the united  states ...
evidence_5: when ronald reagan took over the leadership of the united states in 1981, he  inherited an economy that was in terrible shape—the worst american ...  principles proved to be almost contagious, helping to restore confidence in the  future of the american economy even through a trying recession that lasted well  into 1982.