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From: nrh@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Sun, 17-Feb-85 01:07:36 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 17 01:07:36 1985
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Nf-From: inmet!nrh    Feb 15 11:01:00 1985

>***** inmet:net.politics / emory!kim /  6:54 pm  Feb 11, 1985
>The facts about Reagan's economic policies are finally becoming clear.
>....
>This is all due to congress you say.  A report by the Senate Republicans shows that
>congress authorized spending of only $5 billion more than Reagan requested in his
>first four years of budgets.  That's 0.02% of the defict. So much for that
>myth.

Far be it from me to be a staunch Reagan supporter, but it seems to me
that your facts don't support the logic -- it is Congress which 
wields the final budget authority, and in this case, as you say, they
authorized MORE than Reagan asked for.

I'm not saying that Reagan is not making a mistake by ADVOCATING such
budgets -- he is -- but his advocacy of a bloated budget hardly means
that Congress must pass one, and the blame for it can hardly rest on
Reagan when the Congress passes a LARGER budget than he asks for.

He did, of course, make a mistake by not vetoing the budget and having
the veto be overridden, but that is about the most he could have done
(along with protesting about Big Government all along).  That he failed
to do those things still doesn't make HIM responsible for what CONGRESS
does -- it makes him an accessory.