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To: Grainne who wrote (36292)	4/29/1999 11:02:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, please understand that I don't disagree with anything you said. And if you don't want to argue, I am more than happy not to do so. The difference between you and me, IMHO, is that I don't think government should be in the business of saving those poorest citizens, those poor who prey on the rich in their desperation, the children, and so on. I am not FT, I am not a disciple of Ayn Rand, I think that the people you talk about should be saved, but I think not by government. Not nameless, faceless bureaucrats funded by tax-payer dollars. They should be saved by you. By me. By churches, by civic groups, by associations, by humanitarians, by their families, by their neighbors, voluntarily. My husband and I paid about $200,000 in taxes this year. So, I am not giving any money to charity this year. I recycle more than anyone I know. We give all our old stuff to the Salvation Army. But I am not donating to charity. Nor is my husband, who used to donate to Mediciens sans Frontiers (sp?). We gave at the office, so to speak. That's what liberalism has done to our selflessness.

To: Grainne who wrote (36292)	4/30/1999 7:28:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Christine, what you are saying here is utter rot. I am libertarian and I am fed up to the teeth with being characterized as selfish and uncaring simply because I do not see governments doing what needs to be done with any efficiency and because I insist on the right to direct what is done with the money for which I have worked damned hard to earn. It is the same kind of claptrap that the United Way used to indulge in with its blather about what my "fair share" is. Damn it, I usually more than tithe to support feeding and sheltering the homeless, to support AIDS research, to support ecological research, to support all the causes you are waving around. And I suspect that if you were able to take a peek at FT's checkbook, you might find the same. I have yet to meet a libertarian lacking compassion and awareness. We simply believe that it is our right to dispose of the fruits of our labor ourselves rather than have a government that is politically motivated and disgustingly inefficient abscond with what we have earned and throw it at whatever the cause du jour may be. And I am sick and tired of listening to "liberals" taking the moral high ground. Could it be that some of them are too lazy to research where and how they should give their money and time?