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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: the real Reagan record
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 07:34:45 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.j1t0lc@erics.infoserv.com>
- Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
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- popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell) writes:
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- > erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith) writes:
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- > > <DURRETT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> writes:
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- > > > What clearly happened was that the ReaganBush administrations didn't
- > > > believe in supply-side economics, because if they did, they didn't
- > > > practice it. It's kind of like believing in safe sex, but dying of AIDS
- > > > because you couldn't be bothered to use a condom.
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- > > I think Reagan believed in trickle-down economic (I'm not sure Bush
- > > believed in *anything*), and certainly Reagan's economic advisors did,
- > > until it was clear that it was a failure.
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- > No quite the opposite, Reagan believed in Reaganomics, David Stockman did
- > not. Some of Reagan's people did, some did not.
- > Read Stockman's book "the Triumph Of Politics" for details. An amazing
- > book. Tells how Reaganomics failed and why. It is must reading.
- > Even if it sometimes lies by ommision. (For instance, it leaves out all
- > mention of 'the New Federalism', even when germane to the topic.0
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- Well, like I said, Stockman believed in trickle-down economics, until
- it failed. He recognized the failure; Reagan did not. And Kemp still
- hasn't.
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- Eric Smith
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