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From: woof@hpfcla.UUCP (woof)
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Subject: Government waste
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 15:04:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 15:04:00 1984
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Nf-From: hpfcla!woof    Oct 29 12:04:00 1984

I thought this was a facinating statistic on government waste:

	'Professor Ronald Nash...points out that the United States
	spends $250 billion a year to fight poverty.  This is enough
	to make an annual payment of $34,000 per year to each family
	below the poverty line.  Black economist Thomas Sowell points
	out that the amount to raise every family above the poverty
	line has been calculated and in total it amounts to one-third
	of the amount spent to fight poverty.'


			Steve Wolf
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