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From: gtaylor@cornell.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
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Subject: Re: submitted for comments
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Date: Thu, 19-Jul-84 15:23:12 EDT
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It seems simple to comment on the possible editorial motivations for
the pro-Raygun WSJ editorial, but I'd venture to say that there *are*
some alternate analyses for the appeal to *higher Morality*. I am doing
a bit of paraphrasing of Mark Hatfield here, and I apologize if I under
or over-state him:

To put it bluntly, there is (by the Republican formulation) very little
difference seen between the need for *taking care of the poor* and a
sort of *appease them so they don't burn our houses and take our durable
goods* which is darkly hinted at in the notion of *higher responsibility*.
Our foreign aid and domestic aid is a sort of "tribute" that we pay out
of the incredible goodness of our Reaganomic hearts. Of course, the shiftless
no-goodnicks will expect more from us, not less....

But there is another way to look at things, and there is some echo of it
in the recent Democratic rhetoric (though we may see less of it when push
comes to shove): There is a kind of good sense in balancing the long-term
aims os social development programs (which at their best strive to *both*
restructure society and to provide succor to those caught in the middle of
the changes) with the short term gain of lower taxes. Likewise, there is a
strong sense that our military dollars could provide us with a much greater
long term return if they were put to the task of eradicating the chief
sources of unrest in the enormous "third-world"...hunger and disease, to
name two. CUomo's speech was, I think, misquoted in the WSJ. His point was
that we may well even *be* better off, but...

for how much longer, and at what cost?

It should be bedtime for Bonzo.

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