From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: A sad day for America
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 15:55:31 GMT

In <Yey1XPS00UhBM3Y5Q=@andrew.cmu.edu>:


>I say America will have double digit inflation, interest rates and
>unemployment by June.  If Clinton could not run the small state of
>Arkansas, what is he going to do to America?

No.  Even if Clinton is Carter reincarnate, it will take longer than June to
foul things up that badly.  You sound like you WANT Clinton to mess up the
country, just so you can taunt the Democrats!

I want to say something.  I wanted anything BUT a Clinton presidency.  I voted
for Marrou, and hoped Clinton would lose.  I would have even preferred (yecch)
four more years of Bush than Clinton.  Someone who might actually SIGN the crap
coming from Congress scares me.

>BTW, Clinton is a socialist.  National health care is socialism.

A bit harsh.  A Big Government man, to be sure.  Socialist?  I feared that (and
that's why I rarely vote for Democrats), but now that he's in, we might as well
give him the benefit of the doubt as well as our support.

National Health Care IS socialist.  Something needs to be done.  I think we
should look for other reforms first (judging by government's past record in
federal programs), such as malpractice and drug profit reform, but something
really *does* need to be done.  I just hope that the government doesn't take
away private insurance, choice of doctors, or availability/quality of health
care.  I'd like to see the government succeed in this, but their past track
record in administering programs scares the dickens out of me.

>You people just elected a failure to the presidency.  What's wrong with you?

Look...we have no proof of that yet.  I suppose it would be fun to watch the
country go to hell so we can laugh at the Democrats and taunt them.  Some
people are actually *rooting* for that to happen.  That's a bunch of crap.
I used the "socialist" tag on several Democrats, too.  Most of them got elect-
ed.  Unlike some people, I'd much rather be WRONG about that and see the nation
turn around and start heading back in the right direction.  I'd like to
think that I put America's interests ahead of my own ego.  As much as I opposed
him in the past, I plan to rally behind our president-elect and hope that he
can do a good job.  I plan to continue to vote Libertarian, but if the Demo-
crats can do it right this time, and not give us too much government, then I
will give credit where credit is due--even if Democrats won't do the same when
they revise history about the prosperity of the 1980s.

Many Republicans are hoping for a failed administration so they can have the
White House back in '96.  Not me.  I want to see the nation prosper--even if it
means more Democrats in the future.  That should be far more important than
partisan politics.  The election is over now, and it's time for us to stop
being Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, independents and Others.  It's time
for us to all start being Americans again.  I'd love to see Clinton re-elected
in a landslide in 1996.  Why?  That would mean that we have reversed a down-
trend in the economy and are prospering again.  That's far more important than
political victory.

Tim Irvin
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Don't blame me!  I voted Libertarian.
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