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To: GraceZ who wrote (107984)	6/10/2001 11:26:48 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Grace - ...Yes, and if you were watching the macro view you'd notice that the number of needy people seemed to rise at a rate just ahead of the government programs created to alleviate poverty. Funny how that works. What is truly tragic is that the well meaning people that created these programs don't see the connection between the two.... The probabilities are far higher that the program creators not only understand perfectly well that their programs will not and cannot work, but that they would have to sabotage them if they did. The programs are not typically about alleviating poverty, but rather about exploiting it. Every human action is intended to improve the comprehensive lot of the actor, in his own eyes. This is part of the human nature of rational man. When this action falls within the economic realm of mutual exchange, overall success depends on supplying wanted value to other actors. In the political realm, the acquisition and exercise of power depends on using deception of the ignorant and fantasy promises for the poor to destroy your enemies. Neither the enlightening of the ignorant nor the enrichment of the poor is in your self interest. Regards, Don