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To: marcos who wrote (5808)	5/19/2000 4:20:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 9127

Anyone with any intelligence and resources feels a bit put upon at times by the cost of social programs. Are there better ways things could be done? Absolutely. But how much social upheaval can we tolerate to fix everything? And how much social pain do we want to view if we cut certain very worthy programs- like head start, and low income medica, and food stamps? The Victorians during the industrial revolution had many fewer government social programs- and so they had situations that were so grossly abusive novelists like Dickens immortalized them in an effort to educate the public. A balance between absolute freedom and total socialism is nice. (even X2 wants a police force and an army- to protect his stuff no doubt) Cranks will always SAY they want to live at the extremes, but they've never been there- and since they have no imaginations they don't even know what that would be like. Reasonable people shy away from the extremes. Thank goodness for that.