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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Government waste
Message-ID: <651@loral.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 21:19:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 15 21:19:19 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Nov-84 03:50:16 EST
References: <20300001@hpfcla.UUCP> <331@whuxl.UUCP>
Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA
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Summary: 

In article <331@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
>...  The programs which
>primarily go to benefit the poor are AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent
>Children) and Food Stamps.  The total of those two programs is in the
>neighborhood of $20 billion.  A far cry from the $250 billion figure cited.
>I would like to see the list of programs being included in this 
>$250 billion figure.  
>Tim Sevener whuxl!orb

	These may be the primary direct transfer programs, but there are
numerous others.  Low income housing, energy subsidies, school lunches
(when they truly go to the poor and not everyone else who can afford their
own lunches), subsidized legal cousel (the LSC), Medicaid (a REAL biggie,
not to be confused with Medicare), some urban renewal programs (indirectly),
and probably quite a few others I can't think of at this moment.

	Of these, low income housing (with rents subsidized), and Medicaid
are very large in total outlay.  I don't have figures handy, but when I
can, I'll probably post them in a future comment.

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Ray Simard
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