Re: The Education Function

Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 13:02:15 -0600

From:           	Dick.Gray@bull.com
To:             	extropians@extropy.com
Date sent:      	Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:27:05 -0700
Subject:        	Re: The Education Function
Send reply to:  	extropians@extropy.com

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> Joe fulminates against Mike again:
> >So you rationalize excuses for corporate welfare. Why? Because
> >there are no rational reasons for it.
>
> Joe, someday you'll learn that words have definitions. What Mike was
> patiently explaining was that to refer to the items under discussion as
> "corporate welfare" is so wrong as to border on stupidity. You might as
> well call the Federal child credit exemption on the 1040 an example of
> "welfare".
>
> Take a course on critical thinking, pal, and get back to us when you can
> name all the fallacies you've committed in this thread.
>
> Dick
>

I dispute the validity of your self-serving definitions. Welfare is an unearned gift from a government to a corporation or individual; under this definition (the proper one), my examples fully apply. Joe