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To: Herb Duncan who wrote (9959)4/30/2006 1:54:09 PM
From: E. Charters   of 78419
 
Is the eradication of disease, illiteracy and poverty desirable?

Eradication of relative poverty is impossible.

Eradication of disease is impossible. Attempts to do so may be dangerous.

Eradication of illiteracy is only possible to a certain extent.

Raising the lowest end of society in spending power and access to basic comforts allowing better sanitary conditions, is a good thing to spend time on. It has the side effect of improving the economy and lessening government bleed rates. Almost optimal lessening of disease and increase in literacy will follow.

How best to do this? It can only be done by finding a sustainable economic base for the population. One that does not deplete their environment, ergo the sustainability. A sustainable economic base must be obtained by reducing regulation and providing incentive, and it is best done by the people who inhabit. What can governments do? Educate and promote, reduce taxes, raise deductions which will encourage research in order to increase industry, and free up land for development. Without the monetary base, the social and environmental evils cannot be attacked. The Vikings prime motive was profit.

So in essence you cannot hand out unless you have. And the source of government hand outs are from the people who receive them. So we are back to conservative-associated incentives in order to kick start a social improvement program. A socialist give-away will corrupt the process and create a poisonous dependency that will perpetuate the Appalachias and only marginally improve conditions. The sheen of success from government social initiatives in a poverty stricken area is often a but a veneer of shellac on a base of decay. Preservational, but at the price of growth.

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