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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: A Vote for Mondale
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 09:15:34 EST
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TC, you got the facts wrong.  True, a bipartisan coalition increased
social program funding by more than 5 billion, but also trimmed enough off
Reagan's proposed 14% defense increase so that Congress appropriated
only 5 (count 'em) billion dollars more than Reagan requested overall.
Now, Reagan may beef that Congress spent the money on the WRONG
things, but not because they spent too MUCH.  Reagan's original budget
called for the same tax levels and only five billion less on spending.
Thus, Reagan, had he had his way, would have reduced the whopping 180
billion dollar deficit to a mere 175 billion.

As far as Reagan increasing social spending in real terms, this is
true, but only because the Senate Republicans forced him to abandon
some of his more dramatic proposed cuts.  However, many programs,
especially those targeted towards children (after all, they can't
vote), have suffered real cuts.  It is ironic that the Reagan
administration is most avid about cutting those programs which are 
among the few which may actually be working as hoped.

					David Rubin
			{allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david