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To: Neocon who wrote (2708)	5/9/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: Dave Reed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

Your messy solution to this tricky problem has not worked so far. It seems to me to be doing more harm than good. I need to sign off for a while to get a few things done. We can explore this further later if you'd like. One final comment though -- I view the well intentioned efforts to solve the messy end-cases using the power of government to be what went wrong with this country. It's easy to inflame the emotions over certain issues and to use them as an excuse to extend government power. Judging by the results, however, all that we really achieved was to extend government power. The problems of people using heroin, people being mentally ill, people being poor, people being under educated, etc., are all still with us. So too, now, is a truly bloated government. A society that cherishes individual rights and individual accountability seems to me to be the highest attainable. Attempts to improve upon it using the power of government coercion have all gone tragically wrong. Wouldn't it be pragmatic to explore alternative solutions to the use of government force? Dave