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In article <4662@radian.UUCP> markbr@radian.UUCP (markbr) writes:
>Let me get this straight: you think that if we get another tax on cars,
>it ought to go back to the car makers who started all this. Right? Not
>into, say, increased funding for public transportation? Not into fixing
>the damn roads? So that the car companies can spend *more* of *my* money,
>and I won't have a choice as to whether I give it to them? Well, pardon
>my French, but *FUCK THAT SHIT*.

I'd like to believe that public transportation is a worthwhile area to
pump tax dollars into.  But as we saw when the Capital Metro buses were
completely free, people don't want to ride the bus even if you give it
away.

Mass transit is an excellent idea, but only if you can get people to do
it.  It seems that it would be more productive to fix the vehicles that
they are using, rather than wish people'd use somethng else.

>Head Start, pointless and wasteful? Just how do you define those terms?
>Considering that's among the only social programs that have *proven* track
>records as doing something useful *and* good?

Head Start has no such record.  In fact, after several months of being
out of Head Start, a child who never had the benefits of Head Start is
indistinguishable from one who has.  Head Start has not reduced crime,
poverty or illegitimate births.  Head Start has increase total funding
1400% against a CPI that has increased about 300% in the same period.

>                                               Ohhh, I see, you want to 
>keep the 'ethnics' in their neightborhoods, so that if you ever get rich,
>you can have cheap labor. Why don't you just say right out that you'd
>like them all to go somewhere and die? 

No, I want ``ethics'' in the mainstream.  I don't want ``ethincs'' being
bought off by political patronage and forced into a society of dependency.

``Ethnics'' from other countries, including equivalent racial groups, do
not have the problems with upwards mobility that our American born
``ethnics'' exhibit.  Could it be that handouts actually deprive the
recipients of their motivation, self-esteem, and drive succeed?  I'm
opposed to any program that fails to teach that there is no such thing
as a free lunch.
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