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From: bprice@bmcg.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Defense cuts - RSVP
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Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 14:09:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 20 14:09:24 1984
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>From: david@randvax.UUCP
>    the real problems we face are hunger and injustice, both here and
>    globally.  
>						--- das
>    So there.

Yes, indeedy-poo, hunger and injustice, both here and globally--the real
problems.  [back off, Bill, this is politics, not flame.  Be rational,
especially about these things you feel so strongly about.]

David has identified the symptoms of the real problems, surely enough.  But the
solution depends on the fact that they are symptoms.  In order to solve
them--hunger and injustice, that is--we must solve the problem that causes the
symptoms.  These causes are (bet you can't guess what I'm gonna say now)
statism (or other misuse of the government monopoly on force) and so-called
"liberalism," the philosophy that "If it makes me feel good, the government
should make you do it."

The solution is simple.  Like most simple solutions, though, it ain't easy.
The solution is to care enough for living--you and everyone else--that you
insist that each and every one of us have the liberty to live.  You damned sure
aren't going to get this liberty from one of the major political parties,
although Reagan will get closer--less hunger, less injustice--than Mondale
will.  The place--the only place--that's pushing liberty and actually has a
chance of solving the problems, is named "Libertarian."  

Try it.  You may like it.  You may find the love for living, the caring about
real individual people, the value of life that the "liberals" lost when they
stopped being liberal and turned statist.
-- 
--Bill Price    uucp:   {decvax!ucbvax  philabs}!sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice
                arpa:?  sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice@nosc