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From: smw@tilt.UUCP (Stewart Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Giveaways
Message-ID: <29@tilt.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Mar-84 20:43:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 31 20:43:59 1984
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	>From: dave@teldata.UUCP (Dave Heppner)
	>
	>I for one had to work for everything I have I do not feel
	>that I should HAVE to give it to someone who feels that
	>we owe it to him/her. I do believe that we need to help
	>those who cannot help themselves, but this has to be
	>done at the local level because government wastes most
	>of what it gets on it self.

Hear, hear!  I'm damned sick and tired of the "theftist" policy of taking away
what I've earned to give it to any person or cause that I wouldn't voluntarily
support.

Nobody has a RIGHT to any kind of assistance.  None.  The government has given
assistance for so long, though, and to so many, that people think it IS their
right.  It may be a good thing to have, but it is not a good thing to force
people to provide it.

If government cut off all assistance, and immediately lowered taxes to corres-
pond, I would expect every church and synagogue in America to start pushing
the idea of tithing 10% to charity.  This is the way to provide assistance
to those who truly need it.

The minimum services that federal government should provide have already been
discussed here:  a court system, and a small standing army, are about it.

To forestall SOME flames, I do NOT expect to receive Social Security payments
(rashly assuming the SS [appropriate initials!] system will exist when I reach
65).  I can take care of my own future.  I've paid my way through college with
the help of scholarships and loans from private organizations who CHOSE to
give them.  (And yes, tilt!chenr, I pay the same $12,000 as you at Princeton.)

I loathe Ronald Reagan's stand on moral issues.  But his economic positions
are a small step in what I consider the right direction.
-- 
	     Stewart Wiener			:-) "Read and weep as did
	  Princeton Univ. EECS			:-)  Alexander when he beheld
 {allegra,ihnp4!mhuxi}!princeton!tilt!smw	:-)  the glories of Egypt."