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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Fuzzy headed liberal
Message-ID: <618@loral.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Nov-84 15:01:06 EST
Article-I.D.: loral.618
Posted: Sun Nov  4 15:01:06 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 06:26:22 EST
References: <595@loral.UUCP> <1190@dciem.UUCP>
Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA
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Summary: 

In article <1190@dciem.UUCP> mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes:
>==================
>Ray Simard:
>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.
>==================
>Martin Taylor:
>Emprical failures for decades?  You can say that in the face of the
>longest period of sustained prosperity in the modern history of
>the Western World (1945 until the oil shock).

	The failure to which I referred is the failure of government
largesse to cure poverty.  Yes, the economy as a whole has done well
for the interval you mention.  I wasn't refering to that - only that
some half-trillion dollars have been spent since the War on Poverty,
and the poverty rate is barely changed.  The experiment hasn't worked,
and it is long since time to re-think it.
-- 
[     I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet     ]

Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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