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- From: jft@lonex.rl.af.mil (James F. Tims)
- Subject: Re: Republican Controlled Congress
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.053515.5288@lonex.rl.af.mil>
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- References: <1992Aug21.104623.10048@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 05:35:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug21.104623.10048@hemlock.cray.com> rja@redwood26.cray.com (Russ Anderson) writes:
- >
- >From 1981 thru 1986 the Republicans controlled the White House, Senate, and
- >had a working majority (along with conservative Democrats)
- >in the House of Reps.
-
- >In billions (%GNP):
- >year GNP receipts outlays deficit N Debt admin
- >==== ==== ========== =========== ========= ====== ======
- >1980 2674 517 (19.3) 591 (22.1) 74 (2.8) 908(33.9) Carter
- >1981 2986 599 (20.1) 678 (22.7)* 79 (2.6) 998(33.4) Reagan
- >1982 3130 618 (19.7) 745 (23.8)* 127 (4.1) 1,142(36.5) Reagan
- >1983 3325 601 (18.1) 808 (24.3)* 207 (6.2) 1,377(41.4) Reagan
- >1984 3688 666 (18.1) 852 (23.1)* 185 (5.0) 1,572(42.6) Reagan
- >1985 3958 734 (18.5) 946 (23.9)* 212 (5.4) 1,823(46.1) Reagan
- >1986 4177 769 (18.4) 990 (23.7)* 221 (5.3) 2,125(50.9) Reagan
- >1987 4442 854 (19.2) 1004 (22.6) 150 (3.4) 2,350(52.9) Reagan
- >1988 4771 909 (19.1) 1064 (22.3) 155 (3.2) 2,602(54.5) Reagan
- >1989 5121 976 (19.1) 1137 (22.2) 161 (3.1) 2,857(55.8) Bush
- >
- >* Republican controlled White House, Senate, & working majority in the House.
- >
- >Notice how spending (%GNP) *increased* when the Republican's were in control.
- >
- >--
- >Russ Anderson | Disclaimer: Any statements are my own and do not reflect
- >------------------ upon my employer or anyone else. (c) 1992
- >
-
- Will the argument against this be that Democrats still controlled
- legislation by controlling the key committees, e.g. Ways and Means?
- Will Reublicans take the tack that the domestic expenditures were lavish
- in view of our urgent need for a military buildup, complete with
- the Caesarean casuistry that said buildup caused the collapse of the USSR?
- For now, I see these figures as evidence against a popular myth.
- DEMOCRATS TAX AND SPEND!
- DEMOCRATS TAX AND SPEND!
- DEMOCRATS TAX AND SPEND!
- Even the most ardent liberal cringes to hear the accusation,
- feelng the kindergarten-like litany "tax and spend" to be irritatingly true.
- I have believed this to be among the most vulnerable areas of my own
- political position in argument, not from coherent debate
- concerning social priorities, but from bludgeoning, Orwellian
- repetition that forces one to concede all points to the opposition,
- even so far as to believe that the mindless incantation that ended
- all discussion was true. I feel positively rejuvenated! Should I?
- What's the catch, here? Can I wheel out this chart and smash
- Republicans willy-nilly, or will I just open up the next layer of
- the onion? The very Liberal ass's jawbone of a chart! 8^)
-
- --
- jft
- "And if you're a miner, when you're too tired and old and sick and stupid
- to do your job properly, you have to go, whereas just the opposite applies
- with the judges." Beyond the Fringe
-