At 11:04 AM -0800 2/21/03, John Kelsey wrote: >Social programs in general work this way. It was a goodie being handed out >once, but now, it looks to the people involved like a necessity, and >they'll fight hard to keep it. This is just as true of social security and >farm subsidies as of welfare. Listen to a Republican-voting farmer justify >farm subsidies some time. You ought to have to *pay* for that kind of >entertainment. (Oh, wait, I *am* paying for it.) In fact, smarter and >better educated people will tend to be a lot more effective at fighting for >their benefits than less intelligent, poorly educated people. So welfare >reform, for all its weirdness, seems to be working much better than the >attempts to reform farm subsidies, say. And even with Republicans in >control of everything, I'll bet we don't see any major cuts to NEA, say.
And now that my mortgage is almost paid off, I can start railing against the mortgage interest deduction. Cheers - Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Due process for all | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | used to be the | 16345 Englewood Ave. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | American way. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
