"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:51:09 -0400, DSK said:

Redistribution of wealth, as I was referring to it, is welfare, social
security, and the other entitlements programs such as WIC, Medicaid,
etc.

Of course, because you use it as a buzz-word for rallying
goose-stepping igno-fascists such as yourself. This has
nothing to do with what it really means.

A silly argument on both sides. Take a lesson from Humpty Dumpty.

The underlying dispute is not over the meaning of words. It's over whether
specific laws such as those providing for welfare, social security,
Medicaid
and other entitlement programs are wise policy. Discussing what the
meaning
of "is" is may generate a great deal of heat, but it generates no light.

I wasn't the one who brought up the definition issue--Jon and Doug did that
all by their lonesomes. You seemed to have had no trouble grasping the gist
of the issue, as I presented it. Jon and Doug obfuscated the issue with the
definition game because they have no valid argument against my original
premise, that redistribution of personal wealth is a concept loved by the
left and despised by those who have achieved a degree of success by their
own lights.

Max