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- Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- Clinton and Reagan share more than candy
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- By David Perez
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- When President-elect Bill Clinton met with Ronald Reagan on Nov.
- 27, it wasn't to discuss jellybeans, as the media made it seem.
- Just what was it they did discuss? Let's hear from the "Great
- Communicator" himself:
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- "When Bill Clinton called on me the other day, it didn't take us
- long to find several things we agreed about, such as the
- line-item veto and trimming the size of government in some
- areas." These are just some of the words appearing in a very
- friendly article written by Reagan for the Dec. 8 Wall St.
- Journal.
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- Letting more of the cat out of the bag, Reagan wrote how in the
- course of their meeting, "Clinton spoke of his plans to trim the
- federal work force through attrition." All, of course in the name
- of "cutting bureaucracy" and making government "more efficient."
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- Permanently reducing the workforce, however, is something that is
- not peculiar to just Clinton and Reagan. Every major capitalist
- institution--from the giant corporations to the local
- governments--is involved in some form of restructuring. Poor and
- working people by the tens of thousands are getting the axe, with
- no prospect of ever being rehired.
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- The real symbolism of Reagan and Clinton whooping it up over a
- jar of jellybeans is this: cheap candy is really all the masses
- should expect.
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