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To: Road Walker who wrote (188722)	5/19/2004 1:11:01 PM
From: TimF	of 1576939

When was the last time we had full employment? Not everybody can work. Define full employment. For many practical reasons you will never have 100% of people working or even 100% of people who want to work but if more people want to work and have an incentive to do so then more people will be working. There is not a fixed number of jobs. You are really naive. They are going to spend 1/4 $Billion just on this Presidential election. That's less then a dollar per person, and probably less then the US spends on potato chips. Virtually every decision government makes benefits someone and screws someone else. Yes most decisions of any importance help someone and make things worse for someone else. That doesn't mean that the decision or program is designed to do that or that it should do that. The benefits to special interests will always be a consideration in major political decisions and will often be a consideration in minor ones but that is no defense for programs which exist for that purpose. If the government has x dollars to build a road, the place where the road gets built might easily be determined more by politics then by which area needs the road more, but the purpose of building the road is to build the road. If the road is totally useless and the entire purpose is to create jobs in some one's district even though almost no one will ever use the road then I would be just as against that program as I would a program who's stated purpose was to help some special interest. I would be naive if I didn't recognize that special interest politics play a huge role in government. But that's a better argument for limited government then it is for approval of social engineering. Bush has made dramatic changes that have benefited the upper tax bracket. Reducing the amount you forcibly take from someone is not social engineering in their favor. This is esp. true in terms of these "tax cuts for the rich", because the rich still pay more of their income then the average person so if any social engineering is done its still social engineering against the rich. It might be argued that such social engineering is a good or even necessary thing, but even if this is the case that doesn't change the fact that the tax cuts are not social engineering for the rich. You are a conservative before being a Republican, right? Chronologically or in order of importance? Chronologically they happened about the same time. In terms of importance yes I care more about political ideas then political parties. Tim

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