Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cholula.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!teltone!tikal!cholula!tac From: tac@cholula.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Reagan's responsibility Message-ID: <19@cholula.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 11:25:33 EDT Article-I.D.: cholula.19 Posted: Tue Sep 18 11:25:33 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 07:49:55 EDT References: <947@trwrba.UUCP> <2274@sdcc3.UUCP> Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA Lines: 57 , (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice) Time for my Pavlovian response to your Pavlovian response to..... Again another article blaming Reagan in entirety for the present: a) Budget b) Deficit c) please fill in any evil (or virtue) that you don't agree with I think I have figured out how to cut down on the federal deficit, reduce the number of laws created each year and eliminate most Democrats from federal office. Since the Democratic supporters all agree that the congress is not in the least culpable for the budget and that Reagan is, it is obvious that they have conceeded the legislative powers of the government to the presidency. Therefore, we can eliminate congress. This will cut down on a lot of expenses. Not only can we stop all of their paychecks (and those of all the aides, advisors, clerical, janitorial etc. people who keep the legislature going), we can stop all of their pork barrel politics, their junkets and "fact finding" missions ("The facts, ma'am, are that we enjoy all those trips."), their special crusade spending and cut down on the junk mail from your representatives at election time (thereby reducing the load on the Post Office). This would also serve to speed up the governmental process by allowing Ronnie (or whoever is Pres.) to just make up laws and appointments as desired with no delays for congressional hearings and such tommyrot. As an added benefit, the cost of news papers should drop radically as we no longer need all of those expensive reporters running around the capitol--the administration will give us the news they think we should hear. The total cost of government should drop radically--a Democratic president wouldn't spend any of the money on defense and a Republican wouldn't spend any on social services. We can see then that it would be reduced by the amount spent on whichever was eliminated! {As a special aside, there was an article a few weeks back which put into numbers (from the CBO) how much was spent on each of defense and social services--we will save twice as much with a Republican in by this reasoning.} Since we will probably change administrations regularly (still searching for what we want), it is a good bet that any "executive decrees" passed by the previous incumbent would be disavowed by the new one, thereby tremendously reducing the number of laws and regulations that we have to live with. Sounds good to you, lets implement it! Now for the most important part of the article. This is for those of you who have never read what I have to say about politics before: :-) nudge nudge :-) :-) nudge nudge nudge :-) :-) :-) wink wink From the Soapbox of Tom Condon {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac} A Radical A Day Keeps The Government At Bay. DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are not those of everyone who matters, but probably yours, and most certainly not my employers!