Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oddjob.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!gargoyle!oddjob!matt From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Character attacks on Ronald Reagan Message-ID: <411@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 19:56:39 EDT Article-I.D.: oddjob.411 Posted: Wed Aug 22 19:56:39 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Aug-84 05:05:52 EDT References: <801@ihuxn.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago: Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 27 Re: | I am not a "zombot." I have looked at Reagan's opponent and do not | like what I see there from the standpoint of policies and porposals. I | am of the opinion that the government (you and me as taxpayers) are | paying too much to maintain a self perpetuating welfare system and not | enough to protect us from those who have vowed to bury us. I think | that the HUD, OSHA, DOT, and other bureaucracies have gotten out of | control and need to be pruned back. I presently expect to vote for | Reagan, though I am willing to listen to rational arguements to change | my mind before November. Here's another example of the right wing of the Republican party speaking without understanding anything. (For the record, I have met rational Republicans. They aren't getting heard much at the convention this year.) When Kruschev said "We will bury capitalism", he said it in Russian. In Russian, this use of `bury' is an idiom meaning `outlive'. I think DOD should top any list of "bureaucracies [that] have gotten out of control". Look at the prices they pay for their purchases and the lack of accountability! Just for curiosity, could somebody figure out what the federal deficit would be if all budgets except defense and interest payments were cut to zero? ___________________________________________________________ Matt University ARPA: crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago UUCP: ihnp4!oddjob!matt