From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl Newsgroups: net.politics Title: Re: Re: reagan - (nf) Article-I.D.: ima.287 Posted: Sat Feb 12 03:23:31 1983 Received: Wed Feb 16 02:50:56 1983 #R:sdccsu3:-27600:ima:18900002:000:793 ima!johnl Feb 11 12:47:00 1983 Au contraire, Reagan had a lot to do with the fall of gas prices; since he refrained from taking any meaningful action to deal with the American recession, the entire world economy is (more or less) consequently depressed, demand for oil is therefore down, and so OPEC couldn't maintain their high oil prices. For those of us who work in recession-resistant industries such as computing and who think that WW III is not about to start, Reagan looks great. If seeing people out on the streets who lost their jobs and their houses bothers you, or if you think that somebody who doesn't even know what Lenin's first name was might not be super skillful in dealing with the Soviets, he looks a lot worse. Grouchily, John Levine, decvax!yale-co!jrl, ucbvax!cbosgd!ima!johnl, research!ima!johnl