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To: Stephen O who wrote (14190)	8/11/2010 8:47:11 PM
From: axial	Respond to of 37218

As an opinion, fine. As reasoned argument with supporting evidence that government, and policies such as affirmative action are wrong, it doesn't stand up. Nobody is arguing with your opinion; you have a right to believe and say whatever you want. But many minorities have been helped by affirmative action. Unless and until you provide statistics that prove the policy is a failure, that it doesn't help society at large, there's no reason to question the policy. Sure it creates some difficulties but our society isn't just advancement for white people. As to the idea that government is a "bloated bureaucracy" in some cases that may be true. But government isn't like making computer chips. It's labour-intensive. "The most significant consequence of Baumol’s cost disease, in fact, may be political, rather than economic. Some of the most important services that the government provides—education, law enforcement, health care—are the hardest to make more productive. To keep providing the same quality of services, then, government has to get more expensive. People pay more in taxes and don’t get more in return, which makes it look as though the public sector, at least compared with the private sector, is inept and bloated." newyorker.com We should always be aware of excessive costs in government, and yes, there's always room for improvement. But good government doesn't come easy, or free. It's not as simple as you make it look. Jim