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savings and loan industry for between fifty and a hundred billion dollars, because the Reagan-Bush administration relaxed its regulations and tet the industry self-destruct.
In contrast, Virginians can vote this year for Mike Dukakis, Lloyd Bentsen and Chuck Robb, each of whom has earned a reputation for being tight-fisted. Chuck Robb says that his wife and Dukakis’ wife have a shorter word for it — cheap. Mike Dukakis has balanced 10 budgets in Massachusetts by making tough decisions.
Bush has criticized him for not cleaning up Boston’s harbor. No previous governor of Massachusetts had done anything to clean it up. Dukakis’ plan was postponed until this year because they did not have the money, partly because of cuts in federal clean water funds. Now they have it, and a six billion dollar program is under way.
Chuck Robb’s most difficult, and successful, task as governor was to keep the state government on an even financial keel. He steadily improved services and held the line on taxes, while the Reagan depression of 1982, the deepest slump since the 1930s, caused lower tax income to the state due to reduced business ac
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