Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Democratic checks on monopoly of Govt. Message-ID: <2380077@acf4.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 02:45:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.2380077 Posted: Thu Jul 4 02:45:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 06:22:35 EDT References: <671@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 33 >/* orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) / 11:55 am Jul 1, 1985 */ >Congresspersons are particularly anxious >to help cut bureaucratic red tape to help their constituents because >they know this wins votes. You must have arrived at this conclusion mystically, because the facts certainly don't support it. >Nor do I think that solely private efforts would reduce poverty and >hunger. You mean that solely private efforts would not reduce poverty and hunger to a level which you believe is proper, not that solely private efforts would not reduce poverty and hunger at all as your statement implies, don't you? >The fact is that before the Great Society programs millions >of Americans went hungry. Now very few people go hungry. This is not sufficient evidence from which to draw this conclusion. You have overlooked the fact (among others) that we are a much wealthier nation today. >On the other hand what check is there on a Standard oil which controls >%100 of the oil market? Tim, the management of Standard Oil wants you to come down to the next stockholders' meeting and repeat that. :-) > tim sevener whuxl!orb Mike Sykora