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To: Lane3 who wrote (16101)	4/5/2006 11:37:02 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 541518

Painting social support programs as a "right" can confuse the issue; providing them has always been seen by most as a public policy choice. We choose not to let large numbers of people starve or die of exposure or treatable medical conditions. That's because we can afford it, and we believe it is the decent thing to do. That notion - and the means - didn't exist outside of church charities in the 18th century. Since then, many people have come to believe it is a noble and decent thing to do. It's funny how I have never heard anyone who needed that aid to eat or live complain about it, just those who can afford it very easily. You can say it should all go back to private charities and eliminate state coercion, but that's really not practical in a society our size, particularly emergency medical care. If we don't like the choice we made, why don't we vote out the Congressmen who made it all possible?

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