Show Letter To The Response Editor-Response To Pro-Con Pro by Daniel Weir In last weeks week's Points West there appeared two o articles in the Pro-Con Pro section t that at attacked my article of the week I would like to set the record straight on a few errors th that t were made First my two liberal friends Lanny Desmond and Mark ark Sparkman were both oth infuriated by the words that appeared after my article of two weeks ago These words were OK lets h hear r from you Mondale supporters I hate to take the wind out of sails but I would be your if I said that these are my own words They were added by the Editor or after my article to entice a response which worked Sparkman in his article accurately quoted my story as it was printed however there was an error error made in the printing He quoted my story saying Present and Budget sic The copy that I turned in for printing said aid present a budget Sorry once again for ruining your fun Sparkman also stated in his article that He Daniel Weir fails to mention how he would feel today if Ronald Reagans Reagan's name was spoken sic He was referring to if I were in hi South America today Sparkman was very presumptuous indeed for I was in hi Bolivia for one third of President Reagans Reagan's term Desmond and Sparkman's articles were both vindictively attacking me when in reality they should have attacked the candidates and issues When they finally did address the issues they conflicted even between themselves Sparkman conceded that interest rates are do down while Desmond disagreed In general response to their articles I I submit the following Our capitalistic society has in built-in pruning mechanism It may seem cruel to some but it is necessary if we hope to stay afloat float in world economics If H a business becomes weak and the unprofitable e pruning mechanism plucks off that the tree as a whole can live on Up until recently the governmental half of our economic tree has been immune to pruning and has been growing out of con control ol Many diseased branches have not been plucked off This is a condition which will eventually kill the entire tree t i President ent Reagan has done some done the some unpleasant pruning or should I say he has let pruning take place and not tried to save dead branches The pruning g that nee needs 1 to be done t to make ake America healthy internally Iy and d viable m in world worl econ economics is a a job that is too big for any single President Congress It will take foresighted leaders and much or rebuilding with the the people to accomplish this goal support of I |