Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!pacbell!ames!nrl-cmf!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!web2d.berkeley.edu!laba-4an From: laba-4an@web2d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) Newsgroups: alt.individualism Subject: Re: Read it and weep... Summary: what? Keywords: individualism Message-ID: <7508@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 8 Mar 88 18:35:54 GMT References: <12468@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <2111@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: laba-4an@web2d.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Andy McFadden) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 22 >Path: agate!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!mit-amt!joel >From: joel@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (joel s. kollin) >Message-ID: <2111@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> >The size of the Federal government has increased from ~21-~23.5% of >GNP even while social spending has been cut and the economy is >booming. The latter is not due to any "supply-side" increase of >savings or investment, but to a strictly Keynesian consumption >stimulus built on the deficit. A major collapse of the system has >been skillfully avoided by Paul Volcker, who Reagan was stupid enough ... This is dandy. If alt.individualism is a forum for expressing views about the Reagan admin, I think the (U)nsubscribe key is about to hatchet another news group. (alt.politics? soc.politics?) -- My opinions are my own, damn it!