Margaret Thatcher: Britain's Ronald Reagan and a Conservative heroine!

Margaret Thatcher was the first woman to lead a major political party in the UK, and she was re-elected as Prime Minister 3 times in a row! She was the daughter of a grocer and was able to attend Oxford by sheer ability and hard-work. By her talent and tenacity she rose to the highest position in British government showing it was possible to come from lower-class means and achieve the highest aspirations even in Britain's strictly class-based society.

She was outstanding! Here are some Thatcherite economics to prove it!

• She believed economic freedom is the foundation of all freedom. Socialist promise the "road to freedom" but delivere instead the "high road to servitude".
• She believed market forces should be left to themselves meaning businessmen using their energy and ingenuity to meet the needs of customers create prosperity.
• She believed in equality opportunity but not equal result: redistribution of wealth ruins incentives and makes the economy not work; equality of reward rewards the lazy as much as the industrious
• She believed businessmen are the philanthropists of society, creating employment, paying wages, and endowing charities. When markets are allowed to work properly they benefit all classes, even the poor.
• She believed that state intervention destroys freedom and efficiency through taking power from the consumer.
• She believed trade unions were undemocratic and she was determined to confront and defeat them.
• She believed state welfare to be expensive, morally weakening in that it eroded the self-reliance she so prized, and in addition monopolistic, denying choice as well as being less efficient than private provision.
• Her defense of national interests was founded in a passionate patriotism which sustained her support for the armed forces and the alliance with the USA.

I could not agree more with Thatcherism. She is literally my hero! What an amazing figure in history! She serves as an example to us for standing up and fighting for conservative principles. I firmly believe that these are the principles that provide the most effective solutions to today's problems as did she!