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

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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