In two to three sentences, explain in your own words what President Reagan meant by the following quote from his 1981 Inaugural Address. Why did he think government was "the problem?"
What was his solution?
Provide details and evidence from the lessons to support your answer.

"You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we’re not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow...
Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
President Reagan, 1981