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To: GraceZ who wrote (212191)7/24/2009 3:50:50 AM
From: NOWRespond to of 306849
 
"The left is forever applying these idealized visions of what they think government programs could look like if only good people like ourselves ran them and ignoring the actual outcomes"

The actual outcomes, like every industrialized nation whose outcomes are across the board as good or better than our system of private mayhem at 1/2 the cost?



To: GraceZ who wrote (212191)7/24/2009 5:23:36 AM
From: OblomovRespond to of 306849
 
> good people like ourselves

"Good" being judged always by the intensity of the good intentions, never by actual results or unintended consequences.

Let's use Pruitt-Igoe as a case study:
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