Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!microsof!fluke!ssc-vax!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5e!mat From: mat@hou5e.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Reagan's Press Conference Message-ID: <625@hou5e.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Jul-83 21:39:53 EDT Article-I.D.: hou5e.625 Posted: Sun Jul 3 21:39:53 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 00:36:58 EDT References: <146@tty3b.UUCP> Lines: 42 I voted for Mr. Reagan and I would do so again. Why? ecause of just one thing ... ``Stay the course'' Look at what is happening to the LEADING indicators, to the stock markets, to backlogged inventories. This isn't happening because of the course Mr Reagan has steered ... it is happening because business leaders believe that the Administration AND the Federal Reserve are going to maintain a steady attitude. The spectre of the ``Great Society'' and its costs, both dollar and human, hung over our heads for over a decade. The fear of gov't intervention has strangled business ever since R M Nixon's 30-day wage-and-price freeze. Government intervention changing or holding the marketplace could result in a firm going under -- or just losing money, which, when it is caused by government stupidity, is little more than confiscation. I don't think that Mr Reagan is doing a great job of foreign policy ... on the other hand, I think that he is being, for the most part, more realistic than most of our recent leaders ... and certainly more realistic than many political writers and would-be presidents. As to being a friend of Big Labor ... Big Labor now holds a stranglehold over this nation. I don't mind JP Stevens being struck. I don't mind GM being struck. But if ALL the American automakers were struck, and for a prolonged period, then I would be steaming mad. And if ALL air-traffic control is struck (which is what happens when there is only one FAA running it) then I am damned mad, and I think that Mr Reagan stood up for my interests. As regards morality, and prayer, and ... . Well, many people seem to think that he is in the right direction, but just a little too far afield. 'Course, this has to depend on the issue. Anyhow, the issue raised was economics and business. Listen to the reports in the morning about the financial institutions. In NY, WINS has a fair set of them every weekday morning. Mark Terribile Duke of deNet