Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Some Questions - (nf) Message-ID: <10100032@ea.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Apr-84 17:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: ea.10100032 Posted: Tue Apr 17 17:33:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Apr-84 02:26:34 EST References: <698@pyuxa.UUCP> Lines: 46 Nf-ID: #R:pyuxa:-69800:ea:10100032:000:2036 Nf-From: ea!mwm Apr 17 16:33:00 1984 #R:pyuxa:-69800:ea:10100032:000:2036 ea!mwm Apr 17 16:33:00 1984 T.C. Wheeler asks for specific examples of Reagan lying. Here is what he gets: /***** ea:net.politics / uicsg!kunda / 12:34 pm Apr 15, 1984 */ > How about the mining of Nicaragua. This isn't a fact. Reagan didn't mine Nicaragua. Somebody in the DoD mine Nicaragua's harbors - probably with Reagan's consent. This is an act of war, and well outside RR's powers. Worse yet, he refuses to accept the International Court's ruling in this case. But since he's effectively at war, that's only to be expected. > How about escalating defence spending. So? Everybody does that. He also escalated welfare spending. Of course, he escalated the first derivative of defense spending, and lowered the first derivative for welfare. At the moment, these are both good things. > Cutting the school lunch programs. Again, good for Reagan! Getting the Federal Govt. out of the schools is probably the best thing RR's done. I'll believe this one is good until you can show me a documented case of someone starving to death for lack of it. > Here is a partial list of corrupt people >Ed Meese, Richard Allen, James Watt. James Watt isn't corrupt, he's merely incompetent. Then again, he's a political appointee. What do you expect? As for the others, I would say two in an administration isn't to bad. > Marines in Lebanon. Trying to stabilize an area isn't a lie or a crime. Maybe we shouldn't have attempted to stabilize Europe in 1942. After all, Germany and Italy never did anything to us. /* ---------- */ I have some very strong opinions on the way the US currently wages wars - uh, excuse me, "armed conflicts." I forgot that we don't have wars any more. What Reagan is doing doesn't bother nearly as much as the way he's doing it, but he's following precedents that were set in WWII. In any event, uicsg!kunda didn't answer the questions, he merely listed some things Reagan has done offends socialists and liberals. Try answering the questions. Or would that leave you in the embarrassing position of not having any answers?