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     BY JIM RFRTELL 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sate readers of this 
     
     column can remember the. 
     
     article _I wrote on the I 
     
     United states Presidential 
     
     elections last fall. In 
     
     it, I picked Ronald 
     
     Reagan’to win by a slim 
     
     majority and made sure 
     
     contents on what can be 
     
     expected from his first 
     
     term. 'Ibday I would like 
     
     to continue the discussion 
     
     on what lies in the future {, 
     
     for the new president 
     
     and indeed for ourselves 
     
     north of the border. 
     
    

    
     The American people 
     
     are extrenely patriotic 
     
     and extremely proud of the 
     
     power and honour their 
     
     country has construed over \ 
     
     the last two centuries. 
     
     This is why they look 
     
     towards Reagan to deliver 
     
     them from their economic 
     
     and social roles. Judging 
     
     from the mandate he 
     
     received frcm the American 
     
     electorate, almost any 
     
     action will be seen as 
     
     acceptable. 
     
    

    
     'Ihe new president 
     
     has already gone on record 
     
     as saying. that he will 
     
     worka9t05day-five 
     
     days aweek. Aswas the 
     
     case when Reagan was 
     
     Governor of California , 
     
     the. close advisors and 
     
     members of his staff will ’ 
     
     have tremendous freedan 
     
     in developing and 
     
     inplerrenting policy 
     
     within the powers of the 
     
     President. 
     
    

    
     We will look first 
     
     at economic and social 
     
     problems which seem to be 
     
     at the heart of most of 
     
     Western society. (Prime 
     
     Minister Trudeau should 
     
     recognize this and stop 
     
     gallivanting through four 
     
     continents in search of a 
     
     solution to the North- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ South dialogue). Reagan 
     
    
   
   
    
     , strength . 
     
    
   
   
    
     and all of his aides care 
     
     frcm a conservative right 
     
     wing background,- putting 
     
     much emphasis on the 
     
     ability of the private 
     
     sector to solve most of 
     
     our problems. today. 
     
     Indeed Reagan has already 
     
     indicated that his first 
     
    
   
   
    
     act .as president will be to , fear of negotiations with 
     
    
   
   
    
     put a freeze on new civil 
     
     service hirings. This, 
     
     along with pranises to 
     
     eliminate the windfall 
     
     profit tax on oil 
     
    
   
   
    
     . canpanies and promises 
     
    
   
   
    
     to curtail social 
     
     Prpgrams in favour of 
     
     make-work programs, should 
     
     satisfy those who elected 
     
     Reagan - white middle 
     
     class America, and the 
     
     business  ' 
     
     This, I feel, is a 
     
     step'in the right direction. 
     
     The very has-£3312.— our 
     
     society was founded on 
     
     the work ethic, not on 
     
     unemployment insurance, 
     
     welfare, or union con- 
     
     tracts such as those the 
     
     post office seems to 
     
     blackmail out of society 
     
     every year or two. One 
     
     has to realize that our 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ capitalistic economic 
     
     ‘ system has risk as one 
     
    
   
   
    
     of its premises, and if 
     
    

    
     we wish to reap the benefits 
     
     received fran living in 
     
    

    
     our society we must accept 
     
     the degrees of danger 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' associated with it. 
     
    
   
   
    
     If Reagan lives up 
     
     to half of the, build-up 
     
    
   
   
    
     K the media has been giving 
     
     ‘ him in the area of foreign 
     
    
   
   
    
     policy, We can expect the 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘United States to return 
     
    
   
   
    
     '50 respectability and 
     
    

    
     deal from a position of 
     
     Hopefully, they 
     
     will not be subjected 
     
    

    
     to charades such as the 
     
     Iranian Hostage Issue, the 
     
    
   
   
    
     invasion of Afghanistan, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     .. enemy 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     John ll. Macleod 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     incited revolutions in 
     
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     Already we are seeing the 
     
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     lIranians scurry to make a 
     
     deal with the out—going 
     
     Carter administration in 
     
    
   
   
    
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     the new Republican 
     
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