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From: josh@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory,net.politics
Subject: Re: Extent of hunger in America
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 21:21:33 EDT
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>>Look, I grew up in Mississippi and my mother was a case worker
>>for the welfare dept in Natchez.

>The report of the Physician Task Force on Hunger in America,
>sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health, 

Listen, I hate to break it to you, but these guys existence
depends on maintaining a belief that there are problems out there.
Why are socialists so ready to believe that people quit acting in their 
own self-interest as soon as the word "public" appears in their title?

[janw:]
>> An *egg* only costs a dime; at *minimum wage*, it embodies
>>100 seconds of work; it provides enough protein for some hours

Forget even that--dried dog food, for example, will provide you
with a fully balanced diet of good healthy stuff for a few cents 
a day.  I've eaten it, out of curiousity--it's palatable enough,
if you're hungry.  We could provide, free for the asking, no questions,
a full-time diet, and even deliver it to their homes, for all the 
people Richard claims are hungry, for less than half of one percent
of what we spend on socialist programs now.  Why does Richard not 
espouse this?  Because he is *not interested in hunger per se*.
He is interested instead in *using* hunger to further his political ends
of increasing government control of the economy.  He is, in a word,
EXPLOITING the hungry.

--JoSH