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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (25009)	7/20/2000 3:51:56 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Seems you bought the fallback argument the liberals have been secretly selling for years. I like to call it the "economic blackmail syndrome." Here's how it works: if the government doesn't provide a "safety net" then all manner of horrible things, including mass warfare on the city streets and the cities themselves being burned down, will transpire. Yet, the government provided no such "protection" money for almost 200 years. Why didn't all these terrible things occur with regularity during that period of time? The relatively small amount of money needed to provide for the truly needy more than offsets the money that would likely be spent in criminal investigation, riot control, and other responses to social disorder were we to let the indigent starve on the street. It is both! It is not the "safety net" that is particularly expensive, but the redistributionist, middle-class transfer programs...