From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Perot ?
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Date: 26 Jul 92 13:22:05 PST
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In article <1992Jul25.195601.13785@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@libws2.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
> In article <62736@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
> >Twenty years from now, perhaps history won't have kind things to
> >say about Reagan.
> >
> >But Carter? No one could afford a house, inflation was out of control,
> >helecopters were crashing in the desert, the US intelligence community
> >was gutted.
>
> 	I was shocked when I recently heard about low-income housing priced
> as low as $70,000. Who the hell can afford that? I am heavy into architecture
> and construction and know that these prices are unrealistic for low-income
> housing.

At fixed 8% interest, 30 years, the payments on that $70K home are $669.20
per month.  That's if you get 100% financing.  Given the $5K tax credit
Bush proposed, FHA financing at 95% is possible without forcing anyone
to save a dime for the down payment.  And someone making $12,000 per year
would easily be able to afford those payments - consider the tax break
(interest deduction) and you see that 100% of income left over after
mortgage is taxed at the ZERO % tax rate.

> 	As for the helicoptors crashing in the desert after Carter threatened
> t bomb Tehren, isn't it ever so much obvious that Bush and Reagan stole the
> presidency? Bush was head of the CIA. Reagan was receiving electoral votes
> as early as 1972 even when he didn't run. Immediately following their
> election in 1980, a war was started between Iraq and Iran, with both sides
> being funded by the US. Making money.

Hogwash.  Reagan RAN in '76 and lost the primaries.  If anything was stolen,
he would have won in '76.

In 1979, Carter went on prime-time TV and offered to the Iatolah arms for
hostages.  To paraphrase: "If the hostages are freed, frozen Iranian assets
in US banks will be unfrozen and arms sales will resume."

> 	And as for rising gas prices, that was probably also an attempt to
> control the oil industry that was destroyed in Texas by self-serving rich
> beuarocrats.
>

A totally unsubstantiated statement.


> >"there's a malaise in this country".
> >
> >Yep, and he was voted out of office.
>
> 	Wrong...voted into office most recently.

YOUR opinion

>
> >Don't get me wrong. J. Carter strikes me as a genuinely nice person.
> >I'd love to have him as my next door neighbor. But I don't necessarily
> >want my next door neighbor to be president. He clearly wasn't up to
> >the job.
>
> 	Of course we always have to put war and money in front of peace
> and stability.
>

That's what Oliver Stone "said" in his JFK movie - JFK was assasinated
because he was planning to scale down the VietNam situation.

I, personally, believe that Carter would make an excellent ambassador
to Egypt or Africa (pick a country).  Anything beyond that he is
INCOMPETENT and proved it for 4 years.


>
> --
>       //   David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 516-473-5156 AMIGA  DDD-MEN
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