From: david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: TRANSCRIPT OF REAGAN'S SPEECH
Keywords: Ronald Reagan, Republicans, Republican National Convention,
Date: 22 Aug 92 20:28:30 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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In article <4630@news.duke.edu> eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK) writes:
|Excerpts from former President Ronald Reagan in the keynote address 
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|To hear them talk you'd never know that the nightmare of nuclear
|annihilation has been lifted from our sleep.

I rather think it was the protest movement with people like Helen Caldicott
that brought people's attention to the horrors of Nuclear War which
stopped the Cold War, more so than Reagan. Certainly it was simply the
inability of the Soviet economy to function. There was nothing Reagan
did that brought an end to the Cold War. His increases in our defense buildup
were not negligable, but I don't think ever differd by more than 10%
over the Democratic alternatives. Although this would have helped many
in the US, and helped our economy, I doubt the Soviets would have 
botherd with the difference. I doubt if *having* our military budget would
have made much a difference to the Soviets. Their economic system would
have collapsed just as easily. 

| You'd never know that our
|standard of living remains the highest in the world.

This is a flat out lie.

| You'd never know
|that our air is cleaner than it was 20 years ago.

Another lie. (although I think in some cities it may be correct)

|It wasn't always this way. We mustn't forget -- even if they would like
|to -- the very different America that existed just 12 years ago; an
|America with 21% interest rates and back-to-back years of double digit
|inflation; an America where mortgage payments doubled, paychecks plunged
|and motorists sat in gas lines...
|...higher taxes.

Gas lines and Inflation were as much a product of Nixon and Ford as it was
in the small span of the presidency of Carter. As for the High interest
rates, these were mainly high due to Fed Chair Paul Volcker, which
*Carter* first appointed. Reagan would *reapoint* him, congradualte him
publicly, and get credit for the lower inflation the recession caused.

Paychecks, however, kept up with inflation during the Carter years, but
they did not during the Bush years. Wages are now 13 in the world, and
we all know what the longest recession did since the Great Depression did
to GNP.

As for Reagan tax cuts, that was an idea that rose real rates and destroyed
our competitive advantage with the rest of the world, while quadroupling
the national debt in historic proportions. Reagan and Bush are mad liars.

|...We need George Bush.

It was George Bush who of coursed coined the term "Voodo Economics"
in criticism of Reagan's tax cut and supply side economic policy.

It was George Bush who gave us the second highest tax increase in History. It
was Ronald Reagan who gave us the first.

|Now it's true: A lot of liberal Democrats are saying it's time for a
|change, and they're right. The only trouble is, they're pointing to the
|wrong end of Pennsylvania Avenue. 

Clinton and Gore do not support Congress 100%, however, it is clear that George
Bush *cannot* work with Congress, and it is clear he will not be able to
in the future, just as Reagan could not in the last years of his presidency.

|..What we should change is a Democratic
|Congress that wastes precious time on partisan matters of absolutely no
|relevance to the needs of the average American.

The fact is that the average american likes his Democratic congressman, and is
going to re-elect him. What we need is a president that can work with
congress.

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