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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Social Security
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:19:53 EST
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> 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*.
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> >			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.
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> 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.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice." - Foghorn Leghorn