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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (Steve "Blore" Howard)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Poor People
Message-ID: <1937@udenva.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 14:09:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: udenva.1937
Posted: Tue Sep  9 14:09:16 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Sep-86 10:33:04 EDT
References: <343@ge-dab.UUCP>
Reply-To: showard@udenva.UUCP (Steve "Blore" Howard)
Organization: Pathologial Li--ah, the, ah, White House, yeah
Lines: 31
Keywords: money
Summary: Good God, man, we're talking about human lives here

In article <343@ge-dab.UUCP> byrnes@ge-dab.UUCP (Arthur J. Byrnes) writes:
>
>We (the USA) have been spending more on poor people
>then any society in history.  But the percentages 
>have remained about the same, except for on notable
>figure.  The more we spend on poor people, the more
>poor people we create!
>
>I'm not a libertarian, but it seems they have the right
>idea.  If we spend less on poor people, then we will 
>have less poor people.
>
  And if we napalm poor neighborhoods, we'll have even fewer.  And if we
make the death sentence mandatory for minor offenses, we'll have fewer
criminals.  And if we drown minority babies at birth, there'll be less
racial disharmony.

  We're talking about human beings here, after all.  Such cold-blooded tactics
may look all right in the accountant's ledger, but who has to go out and say,
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Jones, but we've decided to spend less money on poor people
in order to get the infant mortality rate back up where it should be, so no
more food stamps for little Johnny."?

-- 

"I can walk like an ape, I can talk like an ape, I can do what 
     the monkey can do" 

Steve "Blore" Howard, a Fun Guy from Yuggoth
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