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From: clt@pur-phy.UUCP (Carrick Talmadge)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: A Vote for Mondale
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Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 19:48:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 31 19:48:19 1984
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["All of you people of Earth are idiots."]

>If you mean expansion of the economy, you're wrong: while Reagan
>proudly boasts of the six million jobs in the last 21 months, he
>neglects the nearly one million that were lost in 1981-1982, and that
>the Carter administration created TEN million jobs over its four year
>tenure.  As for inflation, it isn't Reagan fiscal policy that has done
>us good there, but rather the Fed's tight monetary policy [...]

Don't you consider that you're perhaps being a bit hypocritical by 

  (1) blaming Reagan for a economic mess which he inherited upon entering
      the office in January 1981? (Remember double digit inflation, double
      digit unemployment, and double digit interest rates which occured,
      by the way, under a goverment totally controlled by the Democrats...)
      
while

  (2) not giving any credit to the subsequent recovery to Reagan, but rather
      the Federal Reserve?


On another point, while it is true that we are facing a record trade
deficit, according to a local newspaper (which quotes as it's source
the US Chamber of Commerce), the US is the largest exporter of goods in
the world at 12.5%.  You can't even say the US has "lost ground", as
our share of the world market has increased during the last five years
from 12.2% of the total market share. As for Reagan being the primary
culprit of the budget deficits, since you gave the Federal Reserve the
credit for having the current high interest rates, why not (at least
partially) blame the Fed?  Anyway, I'm not at all convinced that the
Congress shouldn't bear the brunt of the blame in this matter.

I am not exactly pleased myself with Reagan's performance, but
long-winded diatribes against Reagan only serve to convince me that
there is nothing really positive that anyone can think of to say about
Mondale, so they have to drum up things to say against Reagan.  Given
the stigma attached to Mondale as having been associated with the Jimmy
"We'll have to learn to live with less" Carter administration, I'd have
to say the articles appearing on the net lately seem to have more of a
quality of "Let's vote for Mondale 'cause he's a Democrat", than let's
vote for Mondale because of his qualifications (and no, I don't count
"Not being Reagan" much of a qualification).  Personally, I'm voting
for Reagan because he's not Mondale!  (Bring on Gary Hart!)

Carrick Talmadge
Physics Department
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN  47096

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