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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ron Flanigan who wrote (48457)	2/21/1998 8:41:00 PM
From: Philip J. Davis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Ron, >>What I have done about the $36M contracts to professional athletes is to cancel my season tickets.<< Bravo! And it is your choice, not the government's. >>I do not know who is responsible for the pendulum theory but I do believe it works. Do I want Communism? NO!NEVER! NEVER NO MORE!!!<< Amen! >>"Personal failure, ineptitude and sloth" are certainly true for some in our society but not for all. I wish I had the solution.<< I wish I had the solution too. But if you haven't noticed, the US government has several programs designed to help those in need. Medicaid, SSI, AFDC, Foodstamps, Social Security, etc. To the extent that these programs help solve the problem, there is no need for anything else. If anything, these programs exacerbate problems. What incentive is there for someone who is poor, uneducated and unemployed to work hard and succeed it the government will protect them, regardless of the mistakes they make? Unless these people are made to pay for their mistakes, they will continue making them. It used to be that the incentive a poor person had to work hard and better oneself was the stark reality of starvation. No longer. It's a catch-22. The government can't help people without them becoming dependent on the government. Not only that, the more you give them, the more they want. Then, once this help is not longer needed, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible to stop. As I said in my previous response to you, the problem (if it is a problem) of inequity is as old as civilization itself. Man (including king solomon) has had thousands of years to try and solve it. We have come close, but not without consequences: the degradation of the family unit. Philip