Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hou2g!dcs From: dcs@hou2g.UUCP (D.SIMEN) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: reelecting Reagan matters most Message-ID: <321@hou2g.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 17:37:03 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2g.321 Posted: Mon Sep 24 17:37:03 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 07:13:55 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 26 In the article to which this is a follow-up, ihuxe!rainbow attempts to show us why we ought to support Reagan. Instead, s/he manages to make her/himself look pretty stupid. In a rebuttal to an earlier argument attacking Reagan's policies, rainbow: - didn't know who Anne Burford was (where have you been?! She resigned in disgrace after gross mismanagement of the EPA superfund. There was plenty of evidence that her actions were dictated by her superiors. Incidentally, Reagan is interested in having her back in the EPA.) - suggested that a tax increase would do nothing to solve the problem of the highest deficits ever in this country's history (increased income reduces deficit, no? By the way, these are Reagan's deficits, higher every year since his election, even though in his campaign he claimed he would balance the budget.) - claimed that Reagan is not a liar (see comment on deficit, above). However, rainbow did somehow make one intelligent point: Mondale owes debts to every special-interest group in the country (except the Jews -- the Democrats wrote off the Jewish vote in order not to upset the blacks, as if blacks and Jews were natural enemies). I haven't decided if casting my anti-Reagan vote is worth voting for the Dems, or if I should just not vote for president this year. (However, I'll still go to the polls; there are other offices up for election besides the presidency.) David Simen