Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Re: Social Security Message-ID: <231@talcott.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:19:53 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.231 Posted: Mon Jan 14 11:19:53 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 16:18:00 EST References: <862@amdahl.UUCP> <212@talcott.UUCP> <707@hou2h.UUCP><235@calmasd.UUCP> Organization: Harvard Lines: 32 > In article gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg) writes: > >> How can you blame Reagan ?? Does he manage the SS acounts ??? > > > >Silly, you can blame Reagan for *anything*. ... > > Greg Kuperberg > > You seem to be saying that we can't hold the president accountable for > what his subordinates do. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. If we're going to have > a system where there's one person at the top, then that person is going > to have to take all the blame (and get all the credit) for the people that > he picks to be in his government. ... > Cheryl Nemeth Who said that we have one person on top? What happened to Congress? Does Reagan somehow rule over Congress? How about the European leaders and our last President (you know, the guys who cooked up the idea of putting IRBM's in Europe)? Did Reagan pick them? And do you really believe that Reagan hand-picks everyone in the CIA? That the CIA is full of rookies that have only been there for four years? Sure, you can hold the President accountable. You can hold him accountable for the budget deficit (although even in that case Congress must share at least some of the blame). That he certainly did cook up. However, you cannot hold him accountable for what *anyone* in the goverment does, nor can you hold him accountable for decisions of past administrations. --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk "Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." - Foghorn Leghorn