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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: Actual Dan Quayle Interview
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 10:04:43 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.ink9r2@erics.infoserv.com>
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- giovin@medr4.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo) writes:
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- > erics@infoserv.com writes:
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- > >People may not have gotten poorer as a whole (although the rich certainly
- > >got wealthier as a whole), but what did happen was that their confidence
- > >in the future of the economic system has been shaken to a degree not
- > >seen since the depression of the '30s. Many people have lost confidence
- > >that government can lead the country out of this mess. It's those fears
- > >that led people to vote Bush out; he was seen as out of touch with the
- > >concerns of average people.
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- > Where do you get this impression that only the 30's were worse than
- > today? Now that the election is over, even Clinton's people admit that
- > this is false. On "This week with David Brinkley", Clinton economic
- > advisor Robert Reich said that the current recession is not as deep
- > as the 1981-1982 recession.
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- What I said was that people's confidence in the economic system hasn't
- been lower since the'30s. This is my own opinion, and I believe it's
- true. Confidence was certainly higher in the recessions of the early
- '80s and the mid-'70s.
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- Eric Smith
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