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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Fuzzy headed liberal
Message-ID: <595@loral.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 15:39:00 EST
Article-I.D.: loral.595
Posted: Tue Oct 30 15:39:00 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Nov-84 03:13:26 EST
References: <570@loral.UUCP> <36200166@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA
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Summary: 

In article <36200166@uiucdcs.UUCP> kaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP writes:
>Shame on you for voting for Reagan partially because he will put - or
>leave - more money in your pocket.
>In some circles, that is bribery; I'll just
>call it selfishness.

Selfishness is being unwilling to contribute of oneself for the good of
others.  This opposition is being unwilling to allow government to
FORCE contribution to others, inefficiently, to the wrong benefactors,
without accountability, using methods that have been empirical failures
for decades.  Quite a difference.

As for the "bribery" suggestion: how can you "bribe" someone by offering
them their OWN wealth????  The government does not legitimately have
any prior claim on one nickel of what you or I earned last month or
last year.  Its attitude is that our earnings belong to it, and it
"allows" us to keep what it doesn't want.  Wrong!!!
When we, as a compassionate society, direct the government to enact programs
to help others, we have the right to demand that they be cost-effective.
Currently, virtually all are very far from that.
-- 
[     I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet     ]

Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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