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[QUOTE]Originally posted by J: [QB] [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[/qb][/QUOTE]Budget, my shiny rear... The only way to get rid of poverty is to make social security self-sufficient, the only way to do that is to make every member of the society self-sufficient. I think that a third world war and nuclear holocaust would teach a significant portion of the world's population to be self-sufficient, and the rest [living in an incredibly awful world without much of a support mechanism] would fall to the way side. When there is no longer a portion of society draining the resources from the rest [social security and other welfare programs] you free up a significant portion of the society's resources--- programs concerning exploration become quite a bit more compatible with everyone's world view, leaving separatists and isolationists to argue with. It's not a matter of separating the funds of the different types of programs it's a matter of completely erasing the need for such programs. Defense will always be necessary because there will be an unknown out there that might harm [whether that be a natural disaster, a war, or criminal activity, defense is necessary]. Social programs will not always be necessary, even the original champion said that such programs were temporary to get people out of the Depression [paraphrase FDR]. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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