Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site SCIRTP.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!SCIRTP!todd From: todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Balanced Budget Amendment Message-ID: <195@SCIRTP.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 13:47:13 EDT Article-I.D.: SCIRTP.195 Posted: Tue Jul 2 13:47:13 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 06:51:14 EDT References: <210@cmu-ri-isl1.ARPA> Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 61 > Sorry Bucko, the Prez is not a member of Congress so how can he introduce any > bill? He has to do it though a Senator or Representative. He can @b(ONLY) > influence the members of Congress until the bill is on his desk to be signed > or vetoed. All he has to do is find a sponsor. Real tough until you consider how many like-minded mush-heads we've managed to vote into congress. > But, Ladies, Gentlemen, and childish liberals of all ages, we do seem to be > straying from the subject, not so much where should we point the finger but > can we place a cap on this deficit with a balanced budget amendment? Treating the symptom and not the cause? Democrats and Republicans (henceforth called American Politicians) have a very hard time taking in as much money as they spend. Democrats started deficit spending with good intentions allowing us to "borrow" our way out of the Depression. Other politicians have authorized deficits to fuel big spending for less noble causes (e.g., Johnson and Nixon, for funding the war in Southeast Asia), but Reagan has been president during the years that have seen the most dramatic increase in deficit spending. Reagan cannot be absolved of influence in the budget process. He introduces his budgets via proxies, proposes tax reforms that garner more attention than any plan a congressman could propose, and has enormous resources to peddle his plan around the country. That Reagan is enormously influencial, his foes and advocates both agree. Reagan talks "cut, cut, cut", "trim the fat", etc... Why? so he can repay the debt? Hell no! It's so he can fill *his* pork barrels. I don't want my children paying my credit card bills. But I'll tell you one thing. Nothing incenses me more than knowing my children will be paying dearly for military technology whose use is absurd and unthinkable. This is what Reagan, Weinberger, Schultz, Meese, Larry, Curly, Moe, and Shemp propose. And those, Drewzle-poozle, are my thoughts > Well, Toddie-pooh, what are your thoughts? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Drew Mendler > > "The dirty little secret of the left is that it is more interested in > power than people" - Buchanan The preceding opinions are, in all likelihood, those of Todd Jones. However, these opinions will, in all certainty, bear scant resemblance to the opinions of SCI Systems, Inc., Mr. Jones' employer. ||||| || || [ O-O ] Todd Jones \ ^ / {decvax,akgua}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!todd | _ | |___| FLAME ME IF YOU DARE!