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From: J.JPM@EPIC (Jim McGrath)
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Subject: Space Fund
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 22:19:56 EST
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        Perhaps you are unfamiliar with such things, Monsieur Ingrand,
        but here in the United States we like to take care of our own.

    From: decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!craig
          @ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Craig Wylie)
    Perhaps you should see the comment above, when you supply free
    education, free medical care and government subsidized housing then
    you can be insulting, until then you are not taking care of your
    own at all....

    More to the point, don't blame him: he lives in a country (France)
    where the ASSUMPTION is that bereaved children will be taken care
    of from public funds, and there's no need to start a special
    collection.

"Free" this, that, and the other, eh?  What sort of fairy godmother
supplies France with all of these gifts?  I always thought that a
bunch of toughs, backed by an army of thugs, stole the wealth to
provide these "free" things from millions (for the dense, this is
called taxation).

It's simply amazing how otherwise rational people will equate "free"
with "public," ignoring the costs associated with any government
activity.


Jim
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