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To: bentway who wrote (759969)	12/28/2013 4:05:07 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Respond to of 1574683

>> ..and you believe it should STILL be that way, don't you? Of course not. I want the poor to be economically better off, just as you do and just as most liberals do. The question is one of how we get there. The goal of eliminating poverty in the US cannot be accomplished by taking money from the successful and giving it to the poor, however. >> We had a lot less poor then, but we still have people today in the conditions you describe.. Today, for $150 a month a person can have cable TV, 25Mb of Internet bandwidth, a cell phone, any number of [essentially free] VOIP landlines. That's roughly what an ordinary telephone line would have cost in 1975 translated to today's dollars. This is possible, not because of government handouts, but because of free enterprise and competition.