From: mccoy@communities.com (Jim McCoy)
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 13:19:33 +0800
To: Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU>
Subject: [NOISE] Re: Edited Edupage, 9 May 1996
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Doug Hughes writes:
>  "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net> wrote:
[... regarding the unfortunate poor who Mr. Avon hates...]
> >You got to choose to do what is needed to live a better life.  And
> >most of them ain't doing what it takes.
>
> Are you saying those poor people in rural West Virgina only live
> there because they are not trying hard enough to get out?

Yes he is.  They are poor and it is all their fault.

[flame-bait approaching...]

There are two kinds of libertarians, those who hate the poor and those who
don't.  I always seem to meet the former, I am beginning to suspect the
latter don't exist.

[...]
> >> Education is one
> >> thing (perhaps the only thing) that deserves to be subsidized in
> >> this country.
> >I think that it should not be subsidized.
> >If you feel like subsidising education, then by all means, do it.
> >But why should you stick a gun in my back to do the same?  What if I
> >do not want to do the same as you?
> >
> Then you will be living in a country with lower education standards,
> increasing illiteracy, and a pretty pitiful base with a declining
> socio-economic structure. Are you arguing that people are not equal
> and those with more money should of necessity get better education?

Yes, he is.  It is times like this that I must count myself among the
pitchfork and torch wielding mob, if only because I have been cursed
with a small amount of compassion for those who were not as lucky as I.

BTW Mr. Avon, the reason we, the unruly mob of collectivists, socialists, and
[insert libertarian/anarchist buzzword here] should stick a gun in your
back and make you cough up money for education is because we can.  If you
don't want to do so, they why don't _you_ move?  Are your feet cast in
concrete blocks?

Welcome to the real world.

jim