From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: Anti-choice vs. Pro-a
Date: 15 Sep 92 04:22:26 GMT
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas

In article <1992Sep14.140355.6981@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>>Please, don't argue logic if you don't understand it.  The concept of
>>"proving a negative" is Logic 101.
>
>If you'd follow your own advice, many of your posts would be a lot
>more readable.  I predict that you won't, though.  People like you
>always put different rules on everyone else than you want for
>yourselves.  Just look at the difference in your evaluations of Carter
>and Bush, for example.

Another interesting change of subject.  Can't prove the assertion about
the flame war, so now we run off to Jimmy Carter versus George Bush.  You
couldn't prove the assertion about human brainwaves or inner city
economics either.  I've noticed that you've stopped claiming to know
anything about the latter subject ...

My analysis of Carter and Bush was extremely fair.  George Bush deserves
both credit and blame where due - just as Carter does.  The problem is
that the war which Carter might try to use to explain away his economic
failures ended years before his term.  And the destruction he did to
this country's military and civilian industries would only be excusable
if we got SOMETHING out of it.  For example, much of the military
industry is now on the skids in this country.  In exchange, we've ended
a protracted war with the ex-Soviet Union.  We had the same slowdown
after Vietnam.  But with Carter we got NOTHING positive in exchange.

Consider as an example something which you admit was long overdue.
Reagan decided that inflation just had to go.  As a result of Carter's
policies, inflation made it into the double-digits.  Interest rates
climbed into the upper teens, unemployment hovered about 10%.  We got
nothing for our efforts - the country's exports fell, poverty soared.
Now, Bush comes along and after $1T in defense build-up, the Soviet
Union finally collapses, Democracy spreads thoughout western Europe
and the Americas.  Will we suffer economically?  Yes.  But once the
suffering is over - and by most measures we are in recovery - we won't
have to spend that $1T again.  We won't have to become the #1 exporter,
we won't have to make American products and workers second to none.

In a way, even Johnson was better than Carter - and you know how much
I hate Johnson.  Johnson started the government involvement in civil
rights enforcement.  For all of the trillions of dollars wasted on
"equality of outcome" and reverse discrimination, at least we now have
laws on the books which make discrimination illegal and people are
actually able to bring action against discriminatory individuals.  For
all of the money that was wasted, SOMETHING POSITIVE came out.

All Carter did was let the anti-Republican sentiment that came out of
Watergate ruin our political establishments, let the anti-war feelings
from Vietname ruin our military, and let the 60's anti-establishment
mood ruin our families and businesses.  Carter, with his PhD in Physics,
was in a unique position to bring science and technology to this
country for real.  He squandered every natural gift God ever gave him.
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