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To: miraje who wrote (41681)	7/31/2013 10:16:03 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 86355

I don't detest Obama, but I didn't vote for him after I figured out he was a Raygun Republican. "It's no fun watching this country circle the drain." No, it's not. I'll show you when it began... 1981 - President Ronald Reagan Orders Solar Panels on the White House Removed President Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, and one of his first moves was to order the solar panels removed. It was clear Reagan had a completely different take on energy consumption. "Reagan's political philosophy viewed the free market as the best arbiter of what was good for the country. Corporate self-interest, he felt, would steer the country in the right direction," the author Natalie Goldstein wrote in "Global Warming." George Charles Szego, the engineer who persuaded Carter to install the solar panels, reportedly claimed that Reagan Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan "felt that the equipment was just a joke, and he had it taken down." The panels were removed in 1986 when work was being done on the White House roof below the panels. usgovinfo.about.com