European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes wednesday november 12,1966 William Buckley lessons Learned from election add up to Zero so then what have we Learned from the recent experience at the polls Waal said the Wise Man reflecting on � All nothing thai s right nothing. Democracy the late Max Eastman pointed out is most valuable As a negative instrument the Opportunity Tor the voters to Ell their governors to get out or town and Send in a new set of people. No such thing was done nov. 4. A shift of 10 percent in the Senate has Melo dramatic consequences in terms of Senate leadership but none at All in terms of voters who did t go to the polls motivated by whom they wish to see organizing the Senate. They went to the polls to Vole for this Man or the other and it happened that the sum total of votes for democratic senators exceeded voters for re publican senators. Adding up to Bui Here is what pundits Are trying to make of in. The very Day after Lle election democratic front run Ner Gary Hart had a piece ready for the new York times. In a single paragraph he listed the complaints of the people whom he tacitly identifies As backers of the democratic party. First we must acknowledge the dark Side of reaganomics legacy California s Sili con and Pennsylvania s Monongahela valleys arc both reeling from a quadrupled Trade debt. Steel employ ment has been Cut to half. Farm foreclosures Are at record Levels. The March toward Energy Independence is in chaotic Retreat with net Oil imports up 36 percent in one year. Bulging Bank debts threaten latin Ameri can democracies and . Financial institutions from the Oil Patch to the farm  so there Are problems. Our High tech people Are losing out in their competitive struggle with South koreans and japanese Well reaganomics is As much to blame for that As Halley s Comet. The problem of american Competition is a problem of productivity. Productivity is hampered by overhead. Overhead i what happens when there is a substantial difference Between the Cost of hiring labor and the earnings that inure to labor. And the reason for that difference which is called the wedge is Public spending. Sen. Hart whose 1985 Ada rating is 100, in t about to Lessen thai overhead. Why Are there so Many farm foreclosures one Agri cultural specialist recently put it this Way. Look he said America has 11 million cows but americans con sume the product of Only 10 million cows. There Are two ways of lessening the cow population the old Henry Wallace Way Slaughter a million of them or the Market Way the owners of i million cows go broke and they go off and do something else. That solution is not associated with reaganomics the Reagan and Flora Lewis look Jake him Howe warn him our fix a if it Down t ,b3n6 a Mew ministration has pumped Money into agriculture at a historic rat and certainly not that of Gary Hart who consider every one of those cows a Pel. The Anarch toward Energy Independence is the result of the collapse of open which is a Triumph of reaganomics not the reverse. The sclerosis in a search for fresh Energy is the blight of the environmentalists who fetishist Cally distrust nuclear Power and whose idol in Gary Hart the bulging Bank debts arc the result of improvident Loans by american capitalists who should be made to suffer for their incontinence. Bui voters did not go out in droves to punish Ronald Reagan for saving Continental Illinois. What sen. Hart goes on to read As a mandate for the democratic party reminds one of the remark by Ezra Pound about William Carlos Williams the most incoherent Man who Ever garbled. He gives a few murky paragraphs thai intensive cryptography translates into protect possible democratic voters by putting a Tariff on imports and think big about educating the future generation. Thai plus some Ham will get you another Republican landslide the next Lime the Issue becomes National As was the Case in 1980, and in 1984. Yes thai is the surviving Datum of the current elec Tion namely that the popularity of the Man who is the chosen Leader of the country stands absolutely unchallenged. The pundits Are going cuckoo Over the plurality of Mario Cuomo in the state of new York. He won 65 percent of the vote from the Battery in new York to Niagara Falls. A acc Well the popularity of Ronald Reagan after six Yean in office from the Battery in new York to the Golden Gate Bridge was 67 percent last june. The democrats lost out in the governorship races and made a Little Progress in the Senate races approximating the big Edge they have had All along Intlehouse of representatives. From All of which we learn to repeat the profound statement of the Wise Man nothing. Dec vote on Syria retrieved o bit of its credibility London for obvious reasons the unmentionable weighed most on common Market foreign ministers when they a Here monday on  was America s deals with Iran. If there weren t so much human and National distress involved the Reagan while House could be accused of unfair Competition Wilh the humor columnists when it comes to satire. The european Community retrieved abit of its credibility after the fiasco at Luxembourg two weeks ago when it re fused to join Britain in even minimal pressures on Syria. Bui the measures now agreed upon Don t go much beyond the proclaimed attempt to Send Syria the clearest Possi ble  i is Only in companion with the its. Involvement in Iran and it sown recent stands that the Community looks a mite better. France has renewed its proclamations of rigor in condemning slates supporting terrorism but it s hard to see Why that should be taken More seriously than Sim Ilar statements Over a decade. Premier Jacques Chirac let underlying altitudes show when he tried