rs reader supporte news Farrell writes: "In the past 40 years Republican ideology has gone from solid principles to hype and slogans. Stockman says: 'Republicans used to believe that prosperity depended upon the regular balancing of accounts - in government, in international trade, on the ledgers of central banks and in the financial affairs of private households and businesses too.' President Ronald Re..Fan offet. )ou 01101 butIpm director D.o.id Stockman some jelly beans during a budget meeting in the 198(h. (phao: Batman/Cod*. Reagan Insider: 'GOP Destroyed US Economy' By Paul B. Farrell. MarketWatch 05 October I I rsn editor's continent tt The 'insider' referred to in the title is the former economic wunderkind of Reaganomics - David Stockman. — JPS/RSN // How: Gold. Tax cuts. Debts. Wars. Fat Cats. Class gap. No fiscal discipline. "H ow my GOP destroyed the US economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse." Get it? Not "destroying." The GOP has already "destroyed" the US economy, setting up an "American Apocalypse." Yes, Stockman is equally damning of the Democrats' Keynesian policies. But what this indictment by a party insider - someone so close to the development of the Reaganomics ideology - says about America, helps all of us better understand how America's toxic partisan- Page I 1 of S EFTA01116618