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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: Deficits and Canada
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 10:53:10 EDT
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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