Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: can.politics,net.politics Subject: Re: Deficits and Canada Message-ID: <916@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 10:53:10 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.916 Posted: Thu Jul 26 10:53:10 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 20:05:20 EDT References: <335@deepthot.UUCP>, <1002@dciem.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 20 Just one small correction to Martin's article. The House of Representatives, democratically controled for over twenty years, is the place where the final budget is decided. IF the democrats were so all fired, dead-set against deficit spending, they had every chance in the world to change the fact. Instead, they managed to load the budget with all kinds of schemes and spending items so that the true budget proposed by Reagan was inflated just to please themselves. Then they had the gall to point to the White House as the reason for the deficits. The Democrat controlled House divinely believes in the old Machiavllian tenet that "If you tell a lie often enough and loud enough, people will believe it." That is just what has been happening concerning the budget and deficits in the US. I am sorry that I cannot speak about Canada's problems, but I do realize that many of the things that happen in the US concerning economic questions have a bearing on Canadian economics. I wish it weren't so. T. C. Wheeler