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From: neal@denelcor.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: A quote from Ronald Reagan's acceptance speech. (GOP)
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Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 10:51:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  5 10:51:31 1984
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>The fault lies in equating "government" in Reagan's quote with "country"
>in Kennedy's.  They are TWO *ENTIRELY* DIFFERENT THINGS!

	Uh-uh, and I've got a nice piece of land in South Florida that
you might be interested in.

>If things are as they should be, I serve my country in whatever way
>I am best able, and my government SERVES ME in my desire to
>contribute to the good of my country, and of the world.  That
>service TO me FROM government is what I am owed by it for the money
>it costs me to support it.

	Somewhere, it seems to me, there ought to be some benefit for
some PEOPLE -- not just country, government, society (whatever it suits
your purpose to call it this time).

>Ray Simard

			Regards,
				Neal Weidenhofer
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