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To: epicure who wrote (233731)	10/7/2013 9:16:05 AM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542251

There is a tendency that our RW friends often use to appeal to our moral outrage thru selected anecdotes of abuses of programs or systems with which they disagree It is a tool to attack the appeal of popular social programs ..honed ever since FDR captured the conscience genie and managed to put a social safety net in place in the US I would not argue that the system is perfect or always fair Means testing makes sense and should be done But the strategy to characterize a safety net like Social Security or Obamacare as wealth transfers plays into the overall strategies of repeal It is classic Republican thinking