"the house will soon be choosing between two different versions or measures to deal with the economy. one is the measure offered by the house budget committee. the other is a bipartisan measure, a substitute introduced by congressmen phil gramm of texas and del latta of ohio. on behalf of the administration, let me say that we embrace and fully support that bipartisan substitute. it will achieve all the essential aims of controlling government spending, reducing the tax burden, building a national defense second to none, and stimulating economic growth and creating millions of new jobs. at the same time, however, i must state our opposition to the measure offered by the house budget committee. it may appear that we have two alternatives. in reality, however, there are no more alternatives left. the committee measure quite simply falls far too short of the essential actions that we must take." –president ronald reagan april 28, 1981 what is president reagan's stance on the proposed budget measures? a. he supports the house committee measure. b. he supports the bipartisan measure. c. he supports the senate measure. d. he opposes all measures. (economics)

The correct answer is C) He supports the bipartisan measure

At the beginning of the text, Reagan says that there are two different versions or measures to deal with economy one offered by the House Budget Committee and the other is a bipartisan measure.

Later he says that “we embrace and fully support that bipartisan substitute” and “I must state our opposition to the measure offered by the House Budget Committee.

did you check the study guide?

from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.