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From: mike@dolqci.UUCP (Mike Stalnaker)
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Subject: Re: MX Victory for USSR (reposting)
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 17:13:32 EST
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> > 
> > The best "other project" would be SDI, but that, and your suggestions
> > wouldn't fly in Congress.  As G. Will wrote in support of the MX:
> > if the money is not spent on the MX it would be frittered away on
> > welfare programs of one type or another.  (Deficit reduction is
> > just a Congressional posture, so don't even think the money wouldn't
> > be spent.)
> 
> And we all know how awful it would be if we used money to help our fellow
> citizens with their problems.  After all, that's what the Salvation Army
> is for.  Besides, we all know how objective George Will is.
> (Do I relly have to put that graphic symbol here to get my point across?)
> 
> 	*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***

 Why is it, that until the days of FDR, this country managed  quite nicely
without all those "great social programs", and now, in the thinking of
so many people, we are doomed to be opressors, dictartors, or worse if
we don't have them?   A case in point; the current farm crisis.  While
there is no denying that the farmers in this country are in a major, and
in some cases, life threatening bind, if the goverenment again comes to
the rescue, the farmers will be just that much worse off in the long
run. The farm industry in this country, like so many others, is
changing, and some people had better damn well take their heads out of
the sand, and look around, and either sell their land and get another
sort of job, go back to school or somthing.  They may not like doing this,
but nobody should expect a government hand-out just because conditions
are changing.  In my opinion, the family farm is rapidly becoming a
thing of the past, due primairly to automation.  Did the government give
handouts to all of the people who have been put out of work in other
areas that have lost their jobs due to automation? I think not.  The
whole point I am trying to make is that for the last 50 years, everybody
in this country seems to have expected handouts and help from the
government.  Who pays?????  We do.  It's time to quit blaming the
Defense budget for the deficit.  Place the blame for the deficit
squarely where it belongs, on the heads of all of our dear politicians
who only know how to throw money at a problem, rather than bite the
bullet, lose some popularity, and do the job that needs doing.
I am not saying that we should cut all social programs, not by any means.
We certainly should help those who cannot help themselves, the
handicapped, the elderly, etc. We should not help those who are capable
of working, and are too lazy to work, or collect unemployment/welfare
rather than work for the same or less money.

 
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