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From: tim@isrnix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Reagan"s Press Conference
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Date: Tue, 5-Jul-83 10:20:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  5 10:20:04 1983
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Well good ole Ronnie RayGuns is a bundle of contradictions in more than
just his support for Solidarity vs his union-busting against the 
air traffic controllers.  He also wants to "reduce gov't spending" but
yet has had the highest White House staff expenses of any president in
history-the White House budget was some $27,000 over its allocated budget
which was already higher than any previous administration.  Shouldn't
thrift begin at home? Not when Ronnie has to give jobs to his cronies.
Overall there is the fact that for all his ranting and raving about
"cutting gov't spending" in fact he is spending more than any administration
in history-basically because of his wonderful plan to spend $1.6 trillion
(yes that is Trillion!) on new war toys over the next 5 years-even after
adjusting for inflation that is more than we spent during all of World War
2 ! Or let's talk about "de-regulation" and taking the gov't out of 
business. Why then has he increased the budget to promote nuclear power
plants?  Why hasn't he lobbied for removal of the Price-Anderson Act
without which nuclear power plants probably would not exist?  The Price-
Anderson Act provides a limit of $300 million in liability in case of
any nuclear accident.  Know who picks up the rest of the tab? That's
right, we taxpayers! Thus in the case of 3 Mile Island we will probably
be spending over $2 billion to clean up the mess. I am glad to see my
tax dollars go to subsidize the potential poisoning of the planet!
One could go on-tobacco subsidies are affordable but lunches for
schoolkids are not, tuition credits for private schools are affordable
but aid to public education or loans for those who aren't rich to go
to college are not.  Oh yes, and let's not forget tax exemptions for
a blatantly segregated college, Bob Jones University. (which his
administration fought for but lost in the Supreme Court)  Does this
tell us anything about what Reagan's support of "private school
tax exemptions" eally means? Here's an easy way to get out of all that
mess about integrating schools and forcing good white kids to live
with those scummy blacks- just let them have separate schools and then
give the taxpayers money for it! 
I agree Reagan is also ignorant-look how many times he has either
1)lied or 2)failed to know the facts.  His statement that "trees cause
pollution" was of course a classic, but then there was his stattement
that there were more employed after a year or so than during Carter's
last year-of course he was wrong by several tens of thousands of people
NOT employed at that time that WERE employed under Carter. Or his
latest statement that he had increased education-not true either, and in
fact the only reason education wasn't axed further was because the Congress
reacting to the howls of protests from constituents who didn't want to
see American education go down the tubes and their own children have a
chance to go to college, refused to grant the axcuts he wanted.
Were these lies or just no knowing the facts? Regardless, they are not
very inspiring from a president! But I just wonder, given that Reagan is
a senile old dingbat, who is really behind him? Who really has the
power behind the throne?
            Tim Sevener
            decvax!pur-ee!iuvax!isrnix!tim