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From: carlo@oscvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics,net.politics
Subject: Re: Government, who is it for?
Message-ID: <263@oscvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Nov-84 16:02:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 22 16:02:47 1984
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References: <863@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: carlo@oscvax.UUCP (Carlo Sgro)
Organization: Ontario Science Centre, Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <863@ubc-cs.UUCP> acton@ubc-cs.UUCP (Donald Acton) writes:
>[If] 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. 

Of course, it isn't run for the benefit of all.  All you need is ONE dissenting
voice and the statement is false (as you state).  However, I don't really 
think that all of the people who voted for the truth of the statement would 
answer the following similar question the same way:  "Do you believe that 
government is run for the benefit of every single individual?"  Any person 
with a bit of brains in their heads would answer "NO".  I think that the poll
question, in order to be fair, should read something like "Do you believe that 
government is run for the benefit of the majority of people."  This would 
eliminate confusion over the definition of "all".  However, it may not be 
what is wanted in the poll.

>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

Why, the pollsters, of course :-).



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Carlo Sgro
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