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From: tac@teldata.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Giveaways, handouts, etc.
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Date: Sun, 10-Jun-84 14:28:25 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 10 14:28:25 1984
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, (sop to the blank line eaters--consider it a religious sacrifice)

>>  From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko)
>>  Subject: Giveaways, handouts, etc.
>>  
>>  Taken from another submission:
>>     I KNOW some people who get government help don't need it.  I
>>     would rather support a freeloader and help a legitimate victim
>>     than do neither.
>>  
>>  That brings to mind the story of the Vatican accountants and Pope John XXIII.
>>  Pope John was a great one for giving cash to anyone who got to him with
>>  a hard-luck story.  This alarmed the accountants greatly.  They remonstrated
>>  with the Pope, and he was reported to have said, "If I had a choice of
>>  giving to 9 scoundrels and 1 person in need, or not giving to any, I would
>>  choose to give to the 9 scoundrels, knowing they don't deserve it, just
>>  to make sure the person who needs it gets it."
>>  
>>  Sounds sensible to me.
>>  Mary Ann Zeszutko  AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
>>  ihnp4!ihuxf!features
>>  
  Isn't it iteresting that governments and churchs (who specialize in giving
away money that *THEY* didn't earn) can afford to maintain this attitude.  
Just go and ask anyone who had to earn it what he would rather though.


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	    Tom Condon     {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}

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