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To: Warpfactor who wrote (1654)	3/15/2001 10:42:22 AM
From: que seria	Read Replies (1) of 23153

OT Warpfactor: No surprise that government should both make and abortively attempt to clean up its own messes of crucial social structures. Government has pioneered such counter-intuitive programs as paying young single women for having babies, and paying them to eliminate babies already on the way. It's taking the same reactive but never self-questioning approach to education here, confusing efficacy with morality and assuring neither. I don't question the good intent of the progenitors of this pay 'em to learn plan. However, being in government, they probably resist the truth that government can't buy desire, independence, or achievement for people, nor constructively shape the human spirit with bribery. Bureaucrats could address the conditions that keep kids out of schools, but that would threaten their own sinecures and put them outside the Democrat tent. This is just another program that is inefficacious because it is immoral (morality in the Aristotelian sense). We need a new national resolution--something like "Government: don't go there." OK, so I'm no Democrat. Sorry. But I'm no Republican either. Just had some java and couldn't stop myself.

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