Mr. Loughner responded to a series of mostly yesandno questions from Judge Burns saying he understood the charges against him and understood that by pleading guilty to them he was giving up his right to trial.
While Reagan called for cuts in waste, fraud, and abuse of welfare programs, he was working with a Democratic House, and entitlement programs have only grown and proliferated in the past thirty years, with both parties sayingyes to low taxes without sayingno to new spending.