Kevin Gowen wrote:
> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> 
>>Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>
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>>>http://tinyurl.com/cyez
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>>What would be wrong with that?
> 
> Americans tend to like term limits for members of the executive.

Gowen doesn't seem to realize that US presidents are *not* named for
life and that their terms *always* come up for renewal after a maximum
of 4 years...  Gowen needs to read up a bit on US legal matters...


>>Obviously Bush Sr., Carter, Ford did not cut
>>it. But would Reagan or Clinton have what it takes to
>>be elected once more?
> 
> Reagan has been elected once more.

Did Reagan serve 3 terms as US president?  Or did Reagan go to the
trouble of being elected 3 times as president and then renounce to
serve his 3d term?  That's news to me.  I take it History is not
Gowen's forte...


>>Would the national self
>>confidence or economic expansion actually continue?
> 
> That depends on if the chairman of the Fed is an Alan Greenspan.

Hmm, the Fed chairman's persona as a necessary or sufficient factor
to ensure US national self-confidence or economic expansion.  What a
simple and elegant Gowenworld-view.  Forget about "negligible" factors
like national/international political crises, balance of payment or
government deficit issues, oil price and currency fluctuations, consumer
demand/demographic/technological/productivity evolutions, changes in
the US industries' international competitiveness or the US share in
world economic output, or simply *who* determines *fiscal* policy in
the US...  But then again a characteristic of idiots like Gowen is
their inability to even grasp that the real world might be actually
more complicated than what their dim mind can perceive...