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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: "Social Spending" vs "Social Security"
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 16:13:12 EST
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Another fact-filled response from T.C. Wheeler:
> your remarks concerning Social Security and Income Security
> are mixing apples and oranges.  They do not mean the same thing.
> Social spending does NOT include social security payments.
 
T.C. I wasn't the one who pretended that social spending and 
welfare spending were the same thing.  It was the Reagan Administration
table in the Statistical Abstract of the US presented by Scott Renner
which deliberately confuses the two quite different categories.
Lumping the two together in the Statistical Abstract is a very clever
(tho deceptive) way of making it appear that practically the entire
Federal budget goes to welfare programs or subsidies to the poor.

            tim sevener  whuxn!orb