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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I'd think that the first requirement for daring to claim that poverty has been eliminated would be to make social security independent of things like defense spending. That is, no matter what your overall budget, social security is fixed, secured, *sacred*: let your defenses fall, your labs shut down, but never ever let the soup, soap and salivation run out (or the taxes rise even a smidgen). This would take a bit of oomph out of complaints that defense/science/infrastructure spending is eating up funds, because it would be eating up funds from other defense/science/infrastructure spending only. The anti-exploration faction couldn't point to Lil' Orphan Tim with the missing eye and three wooden legs when fishing for sympathy - the money going to "nonessentials" would be away from the same "nonessentials". Which of course wouldn't remove budgetary tugs-of-war, but would make them less emotional in the populist sense. And less appealing for dramatic presentation. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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