> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> The main "good" it provides is a negative one, that of keeping >> homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent >> political instability.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness > and starvation rather than encouraging it.
In politics the appearance is usually more important than the reality.
-- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/