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To: gpowell who wrote (20553)	1/9/2005 9:02:50 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 116555

your conception that government should constrain itself according to natural law precepts, while the government we have includes socialist concepts. I have no problem with the various goals of socialist efforts. I want a clean environment, I want poor people to have a chance to have a better life, I want children to live in relative safety. The problem I have with the particular socialist programs undertaken by the government are never judged empirically. In fact they seem to be exempt, when housing affordability programs result in higher priced less affordable homes the activists think we need to re-double the efforts, expand the programs. When government anti-poverty efforts result in a dramatic increase of those living in poverty, people proclaim, "Just think how bad things would be without our effort!" They don't make the connection between the programs and the broadening of the problem, that the intention to do good is enough to excuse the result. Whereas, the market, only rewards that which works, government can and does go on rewarding that which doesn't work for a very long time, meanwhile needless suffering continues.