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Subject: Re: Moral Arithmetic and AA
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Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 12:41:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 21 12:41:52 1983
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   If I were your hypothetical Newark kid, I would feel very bent out of shape
at those of you who have lied to me for so long.  It is those who have 
convinced the kids--black, white, green, whatever--that they have no future
who bear the resonsibility for the problems that AAP is exacerbating.  Those of
you who deny each individual's responsibility for his own life are substituting
irresponsibility and dependency for dignity and happiness.
   The evil of AAP lies more in the harm it does to its putative beneficiaries
than any of the multitude of other damage it works on society as a whole and
on the individuals it discriminates against.  AAP, like the rest of the FDR-
taught vote-buying apparatus the "liberals" have saddled us with, has the
primary purpose of enhancing the power of its administrators at the expense
of society and of the individuals comprising that society.
   If you care about your hypothetical Newark kid--or any real people, whether
similarly situated or not--you would learn a lot by reading and digesting
George Gilder' book "Invisible Man."  If you care, you'll learn just how much
devastation is visited upon the poor by the welfare system.  If you care, you'll
learn to think about individuals, rather than "the peepul" that Tipsy-O'neil
types babble about.  If you care, you'll take some personal responsibility for
making things better, rather than supporting government coercion and 
rationalizing away the knowledge that, by doing so, you are helping noone and
hurting all (even the AAP and welfare administrators).