I agree that we need to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, house the
homeless and educate folks, here at home.  I just think that for the
cost of sending our young (and recently not so young) well fed, well
clothed, well housed and educated military folks out to deal
confrontationally with the poor, hungry, naked, uneducated and
disinfrancised foriegn folks, we could reduce their numbers
significantly and win a few friends along the way.

   But, there's oil in Indonesia.  Things will not be as altruistic as
they are in other parts of the world.

-jc



On Jan 8, 2005, at 12:37 AM, Ruth Barton wrote:

> That's why we should be keepin' our money to home:  To feed the hungry,
> clothe the poor, house the homeless and educate folks.  Or there will
> be
> WMD on our streets and they won't be from foreigners either!!!!!!  Ruth
>
>
>
>
> At 3:36 PM -0600 1/7/05, John Callan wrote:
>
> Democracy?  Well, Jim, this is kind of philosophical, but democracy is
> pretty damned good... for most folks, most of the time and there are
> lots
> of folks committed to preventing democracy from taking hold in lots of
> places.  I think its in our interest to foil the later.  I also think
> feeding hungry people, clothing poor people, housing the homeless and
> educating folks are in our interest.  Keeping the peace, certainly is
> in
> our interest.  People who are well fed and busy going to school,
> earning a
> living, or managing their communities don't have a whole lot of time
> left
> over for acquiring weapons of mass destruction...and damned little
> reason
> to direct them at me.
>
> See, I haven't REALLY drifted to the right.
>
> -jc
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