Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxii.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxii!tw8023 From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Supply-side Economics: the Savings Message-ID: <274@pyuxii.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 09:16:05 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxii.274 Posted: Wed Nov 6 09:16:05 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 21:41:44 EST References: <756@whuxl.UUCP> <29200244@uiucdcs>, <362@whuts.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 24 Well, back to form. Sevener, your full of bull. Having gotten' that out of the way, I would suggest that you take off the blinders and examine the world around you. In the first place, your remarks concerning Social Security and Income Security are mixing apples and oranges. They do not mean the same thing. Social spending does NOT include social security payments. Look it up. In the second place, if the country is in such dire straights, why is every economic indicator we know pointing up? Could it be that you have such a hatred for RR that you are letting it cloud reality? And finally, you mentioned Hoover as being the one who started the great depression. Well, if you had paid attention in Government 101, you would have noted that there was more to the reasons for the depression than appears. To begin, I would suggest that you read the congressional record abstracts for 1932, the last session before the election, and for 1933, the first session after the election. It makes very interesting reading as to who blocked legislation designed to prevent the depression. It also makes interesting reading as to who passed the exact same legislation later. Even the most staunch liberal historians agree that Hoover was eucherd in this deal. T. C. Wheeler