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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Equality through Reaganomics ? M
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Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 20:44:00 EST
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>[Mike Huybensz  ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh]
>In article <7800672@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>> The following is from "Detroit News", quoted in "National Review"
>> of Nov 29, page 10:
>> "Since the dreaded Mr. Reagan came to power in 1980, the country
>> has created 7,067,000 jobs, and women took 5,540,000, or
>> 78.4 per cent.
>> ... about 65 per cent of all the wage and salary growth since
>> 1980 has gone to women, not men."

>Good 'ol Jan, ever-ready with the suggested non-sequitur (not-so-cleverly
>hidden in the title.  Perhaps you'd be good enough to share with us your
>reasoned conclusion from this quotation.

Glad to; I thought it was obvious. My apologies. *Business deregu-
lation may be better for equal opportunity than affirmative action*.

Of course there are other factors involved than govt  policy,  so
the  conclusion  is merely an inductive conjecture. That is why I
added the (?).  But if you wished to accuse me of a logical  fal-
lacy, it should've been "post hoc, ergo propter hoc", rather than
"non-sequitur".

Instead, you chose to interpret my note as a blanket  endorsement
of  the  present administration. To dispel that impression (and I
really should not have to) let me list a few areas where I disap-
prove  of  its  policies:  MX  ;  abortion; death penalty; school
prayer; revival of detente; choice of welfare cuts;  incoherent
mixture  of  monetarism  and  supply-side'ism; indiscriminate DoD
funding; empty rhetoric on terrorism. I  could  name  many more.

Now please re-read your response calmly - and I know you can be
logical when you try. What do GI casualties have to do with
the text *or* the title of my note ? Watch that knee, Mike:
it jerked in mid-word! Right between Reagan- and -omics.

		Jan Wasilewsky