The Voodoo President February 6th of next year will be the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan, so President Obama appointed a committee to prepare an official commemoration. Why? Granted that the list of his accomplishments is unique and different from that of his predecessors in office, but does it really need a commemoration? Ronald Reagan did reverse the laws of gravity with his supply-side economics theory, better known as "Reaganomics" (which his soon to be Vice President called "Voodoo economics") by promising that the wealth generated by his tax cuts for the rich will trickle down. It did not, it gushed up making the rich richer and the poor poorer. When Reaganomics took effect in the summer of 1981 they brought upon us the worst recession since the great depression of 1929. During the Reagan administration the number of people below the poverty level increased every year and the trade deficit quadrupled. Another accomplishment of the Reagan administration was the tripling of the national debt as a result of the tax cuts. We actually borrowed money to give tax cuts to the rich. Ronald Reagan legalized and institutionalized selfishness and disregard for the welfare of others, by transforming the party of Abraham Lincoln into the American branch of Margaret Thatcher's heartless conservatism with its enmity for labor unions and the underclass. In October of 1981 Reagan's administration proposed new regulations, announced by the Agriculture Department, for school lunch programs that would have classified catsup as a vegetable. Ronald Reagan started the elimination of the safety net for the most needy in this country; he preached that "government is the problem, not the solution" and then he, and the Republican Presidents that followed him, did their best (or rather, their worst) to cripple the government and curtail its services. Like previous Presidents, Reagan lied to us. He declared that he would not negotiate with terrorists, but he did. He denied exchanging arms for hostages, but he did. He violated the laws that Congress passed by financing and arming the contras in Nicaragua. When the truth came out he accepted responsibility. Reagan did manage to bring two super powers -- the United States and the USSR -- to the brink of bankruptcy by spending on comic book versions of "star wars" and increased missile production and deployment. And lets not forget that Ronald W. Reagan begat George W. Bush. He was not Bush's biological father, but the dogmatic one, and George W.'s presidency was not the presidency of Bush the second, but of the second Reagan. Ogden Nash wrote a whimsical ditty about an inscription on a tombstone: Here lies my wife Here let her lie, Now she is at rest And so am I. President Barak Obama, when it comes to Ronald Reagan, please let him, and us be at rest.