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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (299778)	9/24/2002 1:47:39 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

We tend to presume that a higher standard of living, including medical care and education, makes people better off. I suppose that it is possible for people to be happier when they are more disease- ridden, ignorant, subject to famine, without amenities like electric lights or radios, sunk in bucolic idiocy, as Marx said, but I would not cut off foreign aid on the premise that that was so, nor is it an intelligent response to the higher living standards prevalent among most longstanding former colonies.......