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By SEN. EUGENE MCCARTHY
Rappahannock News Contributinf Writer
For nearly five years, I have •; been reading and hearing of the Rear’ gan Revolution. Somewhat uncritit; cally and unreflectively I accepted '» the word of editors, columnists, and *1 Republican politicians that such a revolution was taking place, al*! though I could not identify clear signs of revolutionary change or identify a revolutionary theme, or J* even a slogan.
Defense expenditures continued to rise, as they had during the administrations of five previous Presir] dents. The rate of increase under I; Reagan was somewhat higher than t it had been, but that change was ;: scarcely revolutionary. The national ;! debt continued to rise, as it had un\der previous administrations. The \ rise was much more rapid than it had V been, but the change was quantitative, rather than substantive. Revolutionary changes usually involve substantive matters. The rate of in% flation had gone down from the high [l of the Carter administration, but leveled off well above what the rate had been in the 1950s and ’60s. Inijterest rates had declined from the *,<high of the Carter period, but inter>est rates, on the record, have been £ variable without being revolution^ary.
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