From: mk009b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu ([Matt Kaufman])
Subject: Re: Limbaugh Watch - Day 17
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 08:22:20 GMT



I'm sorry but as a Conservative I must take a stand.  Day 17 has come and
gone and the Conservative Movement is alive and well.  We need only look at
the future and see that the decade of the 1980s was not the GREAT EVIL that
you people are making it out to be.  The average American Worker's salry
increased by over 15 % during the 1980s and this period took place during
the longest peactime prosperity in our country's history.  The Liberal Elite
of this country seeks to revert back to a time when the government "TOOK
CARE" of its people.  This is not only dangerous, but sets a bad example of
the American way of life.  Our country was founded by men who believed that
individual liberty and freedom meant that a person could only be limited by
his or her own abilities.  Today the majority of the people still do believe
that this anaology holds true, but maybe those individuals with blinders on
both sides of the aisle have failed to see this as being true.  As we sit
here ridiculing a man for doing the best job possible, can we expect any
less of ourselves.

The 1980s created a sense of pride in America for being the best in the
world and we still are.  We spend more money on AIDS research than any other
country and it kills not nearly as many people as cancer or heart disease. 
You nay sayers out there take the Regan Bush years as being 12 years of
hell, but can anyone seriously think that the pipe dream presidencies of
Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, or second term of Jimmy Carter would have
brought about a more positive result.

The Bill Clinton presidency does have much promise I'll grant you that.  But
Clinton's agenda will more than likely only foster the problems that you
liberals seek to end.  Why is more money available for unemployment better
than there being no need for it because government got off the backs of
individuals who can create private sector, well paying career jobs.  Why is
it better for life style choices to have a prominant place in main stream
society when all individuals are perceived to be the same.  And why is it
that government believes it knows what its citizens need better than the
citizens themselves.

The gridlock in government will not just because there is one party rule
because the Congress by its very nature is in gridlock.  The leadership of
the majority will not allow their counterparts to even express an issue that
may make this country better because it directly conflicts with the ability
of the majority to maintian an unbreakable financial hold on those it swears
to protect.  The Democrats cannot solve the problems of the urban poor by
attempting to buy them off in order to keep their votes.  Perhaps the
Democrats are listening but to what extent, as their has been an agenda for
renewal that can bring America back.  Let's just hope that in 4 years we can
see the mistake that we have made and begin a new revolution.

One that will see the end  of the Welfare State because we have succeded in
ending the government's strangle hold on our society, because our education
dollars go to education and not to the beaucrats in D.C.  we must not let
the potential growth of our country be circumvented by the Congressional
Elite of Foley, Metzenbaum, Gephardt, Mictchell and Kennedy.  Rather we
should be as closed minded as the liberals claim we are.  Men like Dole, and
Gingrich make valid points and we do not listen.  Men like our next
presidential hopeful Jack Kemp have plans for America's future that center
around a common principle if you own it you will not destroy it.

Keep this in mind when you are trashing someone who has stood up for these
basic American Values and has not only succeeded but has excelled.


Matthew N. Kaufman.
Class of 1993.

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