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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Bush, Reagan and Deficit cutting (was Bush or Clinton)
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:00:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.090728.2976@hemlock.cray.com> rja@redwood26.cray.com (Russ Anderson) writes:
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- >Stockman said the unraveling of FY 1982 spending cuts was when Jessie Helms
- >asked that the tobacco subsidies not be cut. Jessie never asked for any other
- >spending and since the tobacco subsidies are a relativly small part of the
- >overall budget, Stockman agreed. After that whenever Stockman suggested any
- >other cuts, the response was "Jessie got his, why can't I have mine". Stockman's
- >major problem was that he could not even get cuts throught the Reagan cabinet.
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-
- Right. Stockman suffered from the same kind of naivete that I
- call Usenerdism here on Usenet: the idea that a good engineering
- design or formal model is correct or sufficient to function in
- the real world of human beings. As I've said many times here,
- politics is as real as gravity. It's a basic force of the universe
- and employing it, addressing it, or acknowledging it is no more
- distasteful, low, or disreputable than the use of differential
- equations or computers.
-
-
- ---peter
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-