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From: dcs@hou2g.UUCP (D.SIMEN)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: reelecting Reagan matters most
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 17:37:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 17:37:03 1984
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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