From: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
Subject: Re: Walking down to the student center last night
Organization: AT&T
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 11:57:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.043121.862@muddcs.claremont.edu> weverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (William M. Everett) writes:
> In article <1992Oct15.031044.24585@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
> >In article <1992Oct15.022254.26901@muddcs.claremont.edu> weverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (William M. Everett) writes:
> >> In article <1992Oct14.165055.8575@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
> >> >
> >> >And with the current economy, a product of that highly
> >> >intelligent conservative government we have, the one that
> >> 	Why who has the most control over our economy? It's congress isn't it?
> >> Isn't congress mostly democrat? Now that I've corrected that little 
> >> misconception of yours, you can replace 'conservative' with 'liberal' and you
> >> will be insulting the democrats. That would suggest you certainly shouldn't
> >> vote for a democrat for president. 
> >> 	Just something I noticed.
> >
> >William, old darling, why is it that when the economy was
> >bad the highly popular former president who once played
> >supporting actor to a monkey blamed it on the democratic
> >president then in office, and then took credit for the
> >turnaround in the economy when he came to office, and
> 
> When that democratic president was then in office, there was also a 
> democratic congress. This is widely quoted as a reason why a democratic
> congress and a democratic president are a *REALLY* bad idea. When a
> Republican president took office, things improved. Could this be a sign?

It is a great shame that you don't remember any further back
than this.  There was an excellent economy under John Kennedy,
a democratic president with a democratic Congress.  There was
an inflation problem under Johnson, but not the worst one I've
seen in my lifetime.  Maybe my point is lost on you.  I'll try
again.  Ronald Reagan was given credit for the good economy
of some years ago, but Bush wants to lay blame for the bad
economy we currently have.  While there has been some turnover
in Congress, the incumbents have, for the most part, remained
in place.  So what is significantly different in this picture?
Only the individual in the White House.  Now if the economy
were good, you can be damn sure Bush would be taking all the
credit for it and blaming any problems that popped up at all
on Congress.  Which is why I said what I said.  If his party
wants to credit the one man when it's good, let the one man
stand up and take the heat when it's bad.  Otherwise, it's
lies and hypocrisy.

Understand that I give less credit or blame for the economy
to the president or Congress than you probably do.  We compete
in a global economy.  I blame Detroit for missing the trends
back in the seventies and not gearing up for the competition
to come.  I blame industry in general for not replacing aging
manufacturing plants.  I credit the Japanese for being innovative
and efficient.  I blame the energy crisis.  I blame the oil
companies for doing what they should, in their own interests,
do by blocking alternatives to petroleum.  I blame the
government, president and Congress alike, for not putting
greater emphasis on and greater funding into alternative energy.

> The president has some control, but congress has more.
> 
> 	Something also worthy of discussion which I am willing to entertain
> is the thought that nobody is to blame. Free market systems tend to act in
> cycles and when too much effort is made to prevent the cycles, the result
> is to have things permanently bad rather than cycling between good and bad.
> 
> 	by the way, I thought it was interesting how you managed to fit so
> few thoughts in so many words. Work on being brief.

Oh dear.  Professor William, if you don't like the way I write
that's just soggy grapenuts to you, lover.  What I find interesting
is that you managed to miss the point.  I guess it may have been
a bit subtle for you.

Dean Kaflowitz

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
-Benjamin Disraeli

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