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To: Ilaine who wrote (75192)3/4/2001 1:30:06 PM
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>>By providing poor families with food, clothing, shelter and medical care, in perpetuity, we triggered the Tragedy of the Commons.<<

Perhaps you haven't noticed but in countries where governments essentially provide no social welfare benefits what so ever the poor continue to proliferate. The difference is that in those other places there is virtually no opportunity to move up because there is no safety net to provide a leg up when the opportunity presents itself. They simply die in greater numbers.

And if you think the existence of a safety net was responsible for the "Rosa Lee problem way of life" you need to go back and read that article again and again.
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