
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, May 31, 1990                   TAG: 9005310483
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-14   EDITION: METRO 
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PRESIDENTS BLAMED, CONGRESS IGNORED

ANY FOOL can criticize, condemn and complain - and most do. (Dale Carnegie, "How to Win Friends and Influence People.") in his May 11 column, Paxton Davis in his own hateful fashion again lambastes his old friends Ronald Reagan and George Bush. He blames them, and only them, for the alarming financial shape this country is in, rather than pointing to the fiscal irresponsibility of Congress for the past several decades.

Davis' final sentence reads: "A third view, more skeptical yet, is that Americans have fallen victim to the great epidemic of our times: not AIDS, Alzheimer's, cancer or cardiovascular disease, but stupidity."

What an insult to the American people. However, they are not alone. Davis, too, is an American. OTTO SCHOLAND VINTON

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