I don't know about all of "you people", whoever we are, but the Reagan years were very, very, good to me. Back in the days when Republicans converted their theology from fiscally responsibility to "deficits don't matter", I quadrupled my rate of pay, put a good nest egg away in various booming retirement funds, got married, and worked for two defense-industry companies that literally could not spend DOD money fast enough - some of our projects were limited by the inability to hire competent staff fast enough to keep up with the budget. Saint Ronnie left office 29 years ago this month - how old were you then?
As an aside - I just found out last week from reading a 2-year-old obituary of a remote high-tech acquaintance that one of the computers our group worked on in the 80's was the only computer known to have survived still working in the Challenger disaster.