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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Budget Deficits
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Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 08:30:08 EDT
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Tom Condon has a relatively novel (Republican?!?) view of the budget
process, to wit, the President is NOT reponsible for budget deficits.
Unfortunately for this view, the President is charged with drawing up
a budget each fiscal year, and is empowered with a veto. Reagan had it
right when he held Carter responsible for those 30 billion dollar
deficits in 1980. Reagan drew up budgets which the Executive branch
estimated would produce 200 billion dollar deficits, and sure enough,
they did.

Of course the President doesn't VOTE on the budget---he writes it!!!

Only one President (Ford) was unable to enforce his budget through the
veto, and so is to some extent forgivable (and blamable on those nasty
Democrats). Reagan certainly has not had that problem.

Reagan's advocacy of a Balanced Budget Amendment is like the death-row
inmate who pleads "Stop me, before I kill again!".

					David Rubin
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