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In <qjtIv*o+3@caleb.UUCP> jdp@caleb.UUCP Jim Pritchett writes:

>In article <38ols1$fj7@farpoint.sps.mot.com>, Alan R. Weiss writes:
>
>> the same system we have, isn't it -- we've spent hundreds of
>> TRILLIONS of dollars on welfare since the War on Poverty - and
>> we still have poverty!
>
>Of course we still have poverty!  We pay people to stay poor and don't
>even count the money we pay them when we determine how many people are
>"in poverty."

This is untrue.  Such cash payments are counted.

[What are not counted are 'benefits in kind', like foodstamps,
subsidized housing, etc.]

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