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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Newsflash! [JoSH on Socialists]
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Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 13:53:36 EDT
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> Whoa!  Let's have some historical examples please, of a government that
> CREATED wealth. [Nat Howard]

Well, today marks the 50th anniversary of the completion of the Hoover
Dam, which provides flood control, electricity, and fresh water for much
of the the arid American Southwest.  It was planned, paid for, and is still 
managed by the U.S government.  The wages for the (otherwise unemployed)
workers and payment for the materials may only have been a localized 
redistribution of tax monies, but the fact of the matter is that they
produced something that continues to materially benefit hundreds of
thousands (if not millions) of people.   Why isn't that wealth?

						Baba