Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site loral.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simard 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 Lines: 26 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 {ucbvax, ittvax!dcdwest}!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simard