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   Yep, Paul Schwartz wrote to All on 15 Aug 95  16:37:06 
    about:   Re: - Welfare Cowboys? (eco):

 PS> Eva De Luna-Castro  <eva.deluna.castro@cpa.state.tx.us> wrote:
 
 >I quoted from in an earlier post, about federal water subsidies, the
 >author tried to contact legislators who support these for farmers 
 >who use them to grow surplus subsidized crops.  again, from the 
 >August 95 issue of Atlantic Monthly, "During a phone interview
 >with [Republican] Congressman Bill Thomas, of California, whose 
 >Central Valley district includes major cotton producers, I broached
 >

 PS> There's welfare for the rich, welfare for the poor.  The problem is
 PS> there's no welfare for the middle class; we just have to pay for it
 PS> all. 

  Sadly, this is now the way it is. 
  Once upon a time, the rich paid a big for chunk of their
  own welfare, but, their taxes have recently been cut in half. 

  But to mention this fact is somehow "class envy", and we
  are not to give it, nor the resulting economy another thought.
  So, blindly, I do not think about it.  It has been effectively
  blasted from my consideration, from reasonable discourse..
 
 > DEFINITIONS

 > Liberal: someone who wants to tax me to help others.
 > Conservative: someone who wants to tax me to help himself.

 > Alternative definitions of liberal and conservative:
 > Liberal: someone who wants to raise taxes to help himself.
 > Conservative: someone who wants to lower taxes to help himself.

        Liberal:  wants to take all of our money after we earn it.
   Conservative:  wants to take all of our money before we earn it.
     Government:  tries to please both.



"All that was required of them was a primitive    .---.        .------------
patriotism which could be appealed to whenever   /     \  __  /    ------
it was necessary to make them accept longer     / /     \(  )/    -----
working hours or less wealth.   And even       //////   ' \/ `   ---
when they became discontented, as they        //// / // :    : ---
sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, // /   /  /`    '--
because, being with only Company ideas, they//          //..\\  
could only focus it on Company    =========/===========UU====UU=============
scapegoats.  The rebellious ones only fought Company   '//||\\`
enemies.  The source of these evils invariably           ''``
escaped their notice."   [Apologies to G. Orwell]    


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