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Olin Murrell wrote:

> "Tracey-Levin" <tracey12@hotbot.com> wrote in message
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> > Olin Murrell wrote:
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> > > "Tracey-Levin" <tracey12@hotbot.com> wrote in message
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> > > > Republicans have controlled Congress now for how many years?
> > > >
> > > > What year did Republicans take control of Congress?
> > > >
> > > > What was the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Dec. 31 of that year?
> > > >
> > > > What was the Dow Jones at the close of the day today?
> > > >
> > > > Do you find it interesting that the Dow has risen so high during the
> time
> > > > Congress has been under the control of Republicans?
> > > >
> > > > To answer your question, when did the GOP borrow and spend?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Really don't recall RR's trillion dollar deficit baloon, do you?
> >
> > I recall that Ronaldous Magnus had a fairly large deficit as a result of
> trying
> > to rebuild the US military after one Jimmy Carter (Socialist) pulled a
> Clinton.
> >
>
> You tend to forget Republican military cutbacks... but what else is new?
>
> > It isc about to happen again for the same reason.
> >
>
> You mean, Jimmy Carter cut the military again?
>
> > Of course, this time the US military build up will not cause economic
> disaster
> > in Russia leading to the downfall of the commie empire/ evil empire.
> >
>
> Oh, give me a break! Russia was about to fall from its own weight anyway. It
> was so over-extended, from not only its own empirical notions, but from a
> cold war waged by a long succession of US presidents before RR. It merely
> came on his watch.
>

    Thats funny.  I talk with democrats all day who are ready to give clinton
the blame for this economy even though he had little, or no influence over its
growth.
Yet, you are ready to strip Ronnie RayGuns of his honor.  If Jimmy Carter had
won the election, would the Ruskies have feared him as much as they did Ronald
Reagan?  Hardly.  And while we moved forward on SDI, the Ruskies were crumbling
from within.  Simply, the communists could not keep up.


>
> And even then, some pretty high-placed and rather conservative military
> strategists warned that world might not necessarily be any safer with Russia
> out of the picture, and global events since that collapse sort of tend to
> bear out the truth of their predictions.

That would only be true if they are selling fissionable materials, or ready made
nuclear bombs.