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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (23147)	7/8/2000 9:18:41 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769668

Well, I said why I thought not. But I will expand upon it: the Welfare State is distinguished from socialism by its willingness to refrain from intimate control of the economy, whether through industrial planning or direct ownership. Rather, it seeks to put into place stabilizing mechanisms, such as the Federal Reserve Board, to affect broad economic trends, and it seeks to ensure a minimum level of opportunity and comfort for its citizens. Since most conservatives would subscribe to this broad a definition of the Welfare State, it should be said that liberals go beyond ensuring the minimum, and are ambitious to maximize government benevolence while "not killing the goose", that is, harming the overall economy. Even mainstream liberals, though, understand that capitalism does, indeed, lay the golden egg, which is one reason that so many ended up in the Reagan Coalition. There are various problems with the Welfare State, or particular programs therein, but the chief is that it is "parasitic", and must be kept small in order to limit deleterious effects on the economy..........