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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
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Subject: Re: Character attacks on Ronald Reagan
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Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 19:54:22 EDT
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>> Lord help us all if we elect Mondale and he treats the soviets as he is 
>> currently behaving towards Reagan!  This assinine round of "You're going
>> to do this!" "I am not!" is childish in the least, and aggravating to
>> all who have to listen...

>> As to spending, Ken, I am amazed at you!  A marcher from the sixties who
>> doesn't believe that we can change the world with a little trying?  If
>> we all write our congresspersons and tell them that they will have to 
>> find a more efficeint way of doing things (i.e. cut both taxes and spending)
>> or they will have to find a new job, then we may get somewhere on this
>> issue.  We have become a "gi'me" society.  We don't want to get rid of
>> our senior senators and representatives (deliberatly UN-capitolized [sp])
>> because they can get more goodies of the federal budget for us!  THERE
>> AIN'T NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH! ...

>> Tom Condon

Sigh.  My point was, IF gov't is going to spend, THEN it has to tax.
I too would like to see less spending.  Reagan, in amassing that
grotesque deficit, has shown that he doesn't understand how an
economy works. 

As for arms control (Tom spoke highly of Reagan's "get-tough" position),
said "get-tough" attitude has clearly failed.  Both the US and USSR
are building more & more very expensive missiles.  And we're building
"first-strike" ones.  I'm surprised you're so confident, Tom.  Think
about this:  We put Pershings so close to the Russian borders that
we give the Russians about 10 minutes from launch to impact--10 minutes
to decide whether we really are attacking.  So, their next logical step
should be to fully computerize their warning systems.  Wouldn't you?
Well, now let's consider how big those programs are--100,000 lines?
1,000,000?  Bug-free, of course.  Well, relax Tom.  At the rate we're
going, they may get the thing to what we in the biz call "system test".

But back to taxes.  Do they hurt you so bad, Tom?  Another 4 years of
Reagan will put such a dent in the Bill of Rights it might take
decades to undo the damage.  Choose judges for their stand on abortion?
You bet they will--legal qualifications be damned.  So, just how much
are you selling your birthright, your freedoms--America's true
greatness--for?  $100?  $1000?

The Dems boring old business as usual is a horrible alternative, but
it's merely stupid, not insane.  You know, I figured out what Reagan
saved me on my 1983 taxes, what I got for his union-busting, falling
asleep, Jerry Falwell, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Asst. Sec. of State who
didn't know where Zimbabwe was (and probably still doesn't), and his
waspish sense of humor.  You know how much?  $30!  Isn't that prophetic?
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