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From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Reagan FLAME - (nf)
Message-ID: <1537@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 21:17:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  3 21:17:30 1984
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Dear holt@parsec.UUCP, Among the many errors in your last message (which
were too numerous for me to go over individually) was the following
platitude: "Social programs have little if any expected return."

IF SOCIAL PROGRAMS HAD LITTLE EXPECTED RETURN THEN CONGRESS, WHICH IS
STILL COMPRISED MOSTLY OF BUSINESSMEN AND THEIR ALLIES THE LAWYERS WOULD
NEVER HAVE PASSED THEM.

Social programs certainly do have an expected return.  We live in a society
in which, like it or not, the economic sucess of any one of us depends
in the success of all of us.  A healthy economy require a strong
consumer demand.  The purpose of welfare programs is to maintain that
demand in times of recession so as to blunt the deliterious effects of
the business cycle. 

	Student loans serve the purpose of promoting the creation of an
educated workforce so that we maintain technological and intellectual
growth in the competitive world market.  The original educational
assistance act wasn;'t called the "Defense Education Act" for nothing.

Look buddy, if you really think that you got where you are today SOLEY
through your own efforts then you are really quite naive.  You were born
into a society that made your education possible as well as the
existence of your job and this network.  If you lived in Chad and
worked just as hard you'd be a starving peasant.  What's the difference?
SOCEITY.  Think about that the next time you think that you owe nothing
to society.
-- 
Larry Kolodney
(The Devil's Advocate)

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