Liz Peek: Biden is no Reagan – here's the real reason the economy is recovering

It’s not often that a Democrat channels Ronald Reagan, but President Joe Biden did just that recently as he likened today’s recovery to the economic boom experienced under the conservative Republican president. 

Biden being Biden, he probably didn’t understand that "afternoon in America" sounds like a country in decline. Reagan’s evocation of "morning" suggested that the best was yet to come. Reagan, the optimist, got it right.  Reagan lightened the regulatory grip on the economy while Biden wants to insert the feds into every nook and cranny of our nation’s activities. Biden evoking Regan takes chutzpah. The reality is: Biden has had nothing to do with the economic resurgence the country is currently experiencing, while it was Reagan’s tax cuts and deregulation that propelled tremendous growth and job gains in the 1980s.