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From: acton@ubc-cs.UUCP (Donald Acton)
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Subject: Government, who is it for?
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Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 11:57:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 20 11:57:30 1984
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  Last night while listening to a radio station the results of poll on the 
following question were given: 

       Is government run for the benefit of all?

The poll was taken in the US and 40% of the people replied yes, 49% no, and 
the rest were undecided or would not answer. The poll claimed to be accurate
to within 2% (sample size 1798) 95% (I think) of the time. My personal opinion
on this is no, government is not run for the benefit of all. My reasoning is
that some of the things that are of benefit to me are definitely not of benefit
to others therefore the government can't be run for the benefit of all. My 
question is "If government is not run for the benefit of all then who is
it run for?".  (Incidently the yes vote on the poll question was the highest it
has been for the past 12 years.)

     Donald Acton