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"K+" <kenneth.selin@sympatico.ca> wrote in 
news:1166317733.082936.134440@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

> (En fran�ais : ci-dessous)
> - FREE monthly bus passes;
> - the creation of FREE Government-sponsored
>      self-serve *fully stocked* food banks
>      WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS;
> - the creation of FREE Government-sponsored
>      self-serve used-clothing stores;
> - the creation of FREE Government-sponsored
>      self-serve used-furniture stores;
> - the creation of the Office of Employment
>      Help and Training for THE POOR.

    	Hey you forget free gummint housing.
    	Furniture isn't going to do you any good
    	without a place to put it.

> Why?
> The Government's *FIRST RESPONSIBILITY* is to THE POOR.

    	No, the governments first responsibility is to the 
    	electorate which, to be sure, includes the poor but
    	everyone else as well. A gummint which puts first 
    	priority on poverty programs will inevitably lose
    	support of the middle class and that is political 
    	suicide. There's also a tendency for regimes which
    	do concentrate on poverty programs to view the productive
    	parts of the economy as a tax mine sitting there waiting
    	to be exploited. This has a negative effect on that
    	sector fo the economy leading sooner or later to
    	more poverty.

> Jesus came into the world on Christmas Day to share
> the lot of THE POOR and on Judgement Day the only
> question He's going to ask is: "What did you do for
> THE POOR?"

    	I suspect there will be other questions he will
    	ask.

    	IBM