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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Equality through Reaganomics ?
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Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 11:50:00 EST
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[Jim Balter (ima!jim)]
>... You post something that occurred during the
>Reagan administration, with a "conjectured" but totally unjustified
>(by you or the quote) implication that a specific policy not only
>was responsible, but was better than another policy which wasn't
>even treated by the data (affirmative action is still in effect
>despite Meese's attempts to dismantle it, and you offered no data
>indicating the change in the number of women in the workplace since a.a.
>went into effect).  

The newspapers write that the administration  has  been  dragging
its  feet on affirmative action, and I believe them. The adminis-
tration claims to be scrapping regulations by the bushel,  and  I
believe  (perhaps erroneously) there is some core of truth in it.
This is the policy being tested. At the very least, it has  not
*prevented*  the  gains  in equality. I think this is interesting
and worth consideration. I offer the facts *for* consideration.
Tim  has  just drawn interesting conclusions, *opposite* to mine,
from the same facts. Right or wrong, at  least  he  was *thinking*
about facts, not trying to suppress them.

Quit standing guard over "little minds". Enlarge your own,
by not being scared of fact and thought.

			Jan Wasilewsky