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<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Good Morning Visionaries:</span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:19px;background-image:initial;background-color:white;vertical-align:baseline">
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<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Many of you I'm sure saw the 4/30 column in DNews by Susan Brown.  My response is appended below.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:19px;background-image:initial;background-color:white;vertical-align:baseline">
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<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Brown and Tiny Dupy are horrible embarrassments to their respective political sympathizers, so why does the DNews waste good money on them?</span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:19px;background-image:initial;background-color:white;vertical-align:baseline">
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<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">To the Editor:</span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:19px;background-image:initial;background-color:white;vertical-align:baseline">
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<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">In her column (4/30) Susan Brown claims that Obama believes that capitalism is </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">"broken down theory.” Brown neglected to mention that he was talking about Ronald Reagan’s “trickle down economics,” which has defied the law of gravity by moving 275 percent more wealth up not down.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Brown’s recollection of the Reagan years</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> is highly selective. Reagan actually raised taxes in every year of his two terms except one. The libertarian Ludwig von Mises institute has described the </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 “the largest tax increase in American history.”</span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Reagan cut everything but defense, but the national debt still rose 189 percent, a record for the post war period. Bush II cut taxes, waged two unfunded wars, passed an unfunded senior drug program, had the worst job record since Herbert Hoover, and increased the debt by 89 percent.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">In stark contrast Obama has created the most manufacturing jobs since 2005, passed a successful stimulus (the effects of which have now gone), saved the auto industry and  one million of its jobs, and has increased the national debt 41 percent in 3.5 years.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></p><p style><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Brown should know better than to drag out the old canard that “Obama palled around with terrorists,” a Sarah Palin charge that was dismissed in the 2008 campaign.  Yes, William Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground , but he, just as the late Charles Colson, has redeemed himself.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> The closest association Obama ever had with Ayers was the education and social programs funded by the Annenberg Foundation.  When I visited my parents in Palm Springs at Christmas in the 1980s, I would see Air Force One parked at the airport.  Ronald Reagan was  staying at the 200 acre walled estate of his “radical” friend Walter Annenberg.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Nick Gier, Moscow<font size="3"></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style>
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