With a grade-school education, John cumulated the family income by opening a shoe shop, which got the family by. (Kengor) He was a visionary, but tough times made him an alcoholic. Reagan saw in his dad an ability to roll with the punches, a trait cru-cial to Reagan’s thick political skin.
His mother Protestant Christian, raising Reagan with deep religious faith -- in which he adopted in his political …show more content…
The federal gonvernment deficit grew, and by November 1981 the nation was in a recession. Farmers had high interest rate, homeless bloom, business failed and unemployment was high as 10%. Because of this, Reagan implimmented another tax reform called Tax Reform of 1986, which decrease tax rate of the top bracket, and increase tax rate of the lower bracket.
With Reagan traditional social U.S. upbringing, he intensely valued christanity, family loyality, sturdy work ethics, and patriotism. It states Reagan, in his early life abopted his mother faith of Evangelical Christianity. This, gave him support by the “Christian right”, christian political party that are charaterized by there tenacious support of social conservatism. Reagan wanted to bring back traditional american values.
(Shi and Tindall, George 1174) In 1979, a formed group called the Moral Majority campagin for the major social and religious reforms: abortion; Darwinian evolution in school textbooks; homesexuality; pornography; prayers in school; and women should submit to their husbands. Implementing the ratification of equal rights constitutional amendment (ERA), and backing the religious rights, he was seen as a hero to some, but not all. Reagan receive an anti-feminist backlash because