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From: notes@iuvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Giveaways - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 01:05:50 EST
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iuvax!scsg    Apr  2 19:33:00 1984


I fail to see how you can claim Reagan has made any steps 
towards reducing the size of government or providing only a
small standing army when in fact
1)he's responsible for the biggest deficit in our history
2)he intends to spend $1.6 trillion on the military in the
next few years, more than the total costs, adjusteed for inflation
of ALL of World War II!  Are we in a World War? Are we about to
get into one?
3)His federal budget is the largest in the world's history
4)the increase in the interest on the National debt due to these
incredible deficits is larger than ALL of his cuts in social spending
5)his cuts in social spending are irrational and a hodge-podge
meatax approach.  In fact, he has hurt NOT the people who stay
permanently on welfare but the working poor who have struggled to
ralize the  American dream by working for it--only to find that
,as a GAO report found--they would have been better off on welfare
after Reagan's meatax approach to social spending.  The GAO found
that a person making $714 for example, and getting a raise in pay
before Reagan's cutbacks now makes $550--they could have done as
well to quit working and just go on Welfare.
Is this the incentive we want to give people to be productive citizens?
6)what is the justification for retaining such govt expenditures as
the tobacco subsidy? 
7)what is the purpose in continuing to underwrite Nuclear power at the
expense of alternative forms of energy--Reagan has increased the
amount of money the gov't spends on nuclear power.  Is this the
"free-enterprise"   approach?  Increase gov't spending for those programs
which benefit the biggest businesses and tend to lead to centralization
and monopoly power while cutting spending for ordinary people?
ne of the greatest myths ever perpetrated is the myth that Reagan has
CUT gov't spending.  He hasn't--he's increased it more than any other
President in history--the economic "recovery" is being fueled by
military keynesianism--wasting enormous amounts of Americans money
to build a war machine that only threatens our survival.
 
tim sevener
Indiana University, Bloomingto
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