A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 12-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Welfare is a drain on the system consisting
of money given to people who produce nothing in return.

Like the military-industrial complex.

Which produces many products the government uses, and provides us with peace
through superior firepower, something the EU can be thankful for, given how
much of our military technology they use.


it places our nation at
strategic risk for us to be dependent on other nations for our basic food
supplies.

But not oil. Bizarre contradiction.

Oil is a concern because we don't have sufficient domestic supplies to meet
our needs. So, we secure our external oil supplies other ways.


Government protection of agriculture merely
ensures that American farmers don't go out of business because of low crop
prices.

Even if it means that the products are simply stored and never consumed?

Oh, it usually gets consumed, eventually. There's nothing wrong with
stockpiling food, and if it isn't needed, we usually export it or turn it
into something else we can use.

That's not support, that's corporate welfare.

Wrong.

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