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To: tejek who wrote (277528)	3/8/2006 4:50:19 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1572860

Common good = everyone gets to share in the wealth of a community. That isn't a very good definition IMO. For one thing it only deals with wealth. For another its sort of vague "sharing in the wealth of the community" can mean different things from equal shares, to getting any benefit from the communities wealth at all. The latter would be the way I would use the term but its a low hurdle to jump. I would use common good (with the rare exception of when I am using it in the economic sense of there term) to refer to something that is to the benefit of the group as a whole, that group could be a city, a state, a nation, or some non-political group including the world as a whole. Republicans fight as much for what they see as being in the good of the country as a whole as do Democrats, they just have different opinions about what will help the country. (And not just 1 Democratic opinion and 1 Republican, but thousands of opinions, some of which are held by large elements of both parties.) Tim