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To: Father Terrence who wrote (16220)	1/22/1998 1:28:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Terrence, I'm sympathetic to your feelings on this. However, to take your questions on.. A. governments by their nature are "hand out's and take" relationships, that's the essential nature and self proclaimed right of any government. Whether by divine right, consensus, by election or by force governments proclaim their own ethicacy of power from having to make collective decisions on behalf of their citizenry one way or another... hopefully in our form of government, the system of checks and balances and periodic & term elections prohibits any one faction from taking over. B. JFK's original quote in the context of its time was an appeal to help one's fellow man whether in the Peace Corp or countryman. It was not an appeal to apply for government pork barreling (is that correct spelling Alex?). C. Times have changed since then. Remember those were the days before the Great Society vision of Lydon Johnson. It was a time when the USSR was a powerful force in the world, when we were entering into a war in Vietnam. In some sense I think the strengths displayed by socialism rubbed off as a partial solution among our elected officials. That they too could engineer improvements within the structure of a democratic system. We've had a powerful reassessment of how effective government's can be in creating solutions to societies' problems. Part of the argument of least government having proven itself is sophistic rhetoric, because it was huge overbudget spending on militarism by the Reagan administration which bankrupted the Soviets in an arms race. For the last ten years we've been trying to retire the national debt from two big government initiatives... Johnson and Reagan. Within the popular rhetoric of this process... your abridgement of JFK's statement makes perfect sense.