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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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Subject: Re: Fuzzy headed liberal
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Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 18:23:29 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 31 18:23:29 1984
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< let's all vote on facts, it's an election year >

!> In summary, Under Reagan I am better off than I was four years ago. I'm
!> taking home $50 more each week in my pay check because of Reagan's TAX
!> CUTS!  America is much better off than it was four years ago. We are
!> stronger.  The threat nuclear war is less because of our strength and
!> the spread of communism has stopped.

! Yea, I used to believe everything the newspaper told me too ... Now I
! make my own decisions.  If you look the right places, you can probably
! find what really happens.  Have you ever looked at the _Congressional
! Record_? Nope, didn't think so. That'll give a real good idea of what
! happens in congress.

Before I flame at Banta....  WHAT makes you think America is much better off
than four years ago?  We have a national deficit which is larger than any
before (except last years) and no sign of improvement.  We have a president
who never graduated from high school, whose entry into politics came about
as a result of the fact that he is a competent actor.  (Not a GREAT actor or
he would have spent his time acting instead of .... Hmmm, maybe he IS a
great actor.)  The threat of nuclear war is GREATER because not only is Reagan
willing to use them, but the USSR is undergoing internal upheavals.  Admittedly
the latter cannot be blamed on Reagan.  I hope.  And we don't even begin to
look at the problems of the jobless, the wholesale rape of the environmental
protection agencies, the increasing waste in government...  Better off indeed!

Now, as for the Congressional record... That rag is a piece of fiction.
ANY congressman who wants to can edit the record.  They ALL do it.  In fact, 
the Congressional record on a typical day shows speeches which would take
in excess of 30 hours to make.  This is absurd.  On a TV scandal news show,
when they were investigating the Record,. they pointed out the case of one
congressman who made what had to be a 45 minute speech, one afternoon.
Unfortunately, that congressman had died in an accident over 30 miles from
Washington DC, earlier that morning.  The Congressional Record is a JOKE.

Hutch