To: cryptical
A government program having an effect opposite its intention? Impossible!
2 posted on
05/12/2006 8:08:27 AM PDT by
Phocion
("Protection" really means exploiting the consumer. - Milton Friedman)
To: Phocion
Note how successful the efforts have been to prevent venereal disease and out-of-wedlock babies.
12 posted on
05/12/2006 8:13:35 AM PDT by
sine_nomine
(No more RINO presidents. We need another Reagan.)
To: Phocion
A government program having an effect opposite its intention? Impossible!
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lol, I'm not sure I can name one government program that actually accomplished its intended goal. War on Poverty? Increased Poverty. War on Drugs? Increased Drug use. And on and on.
21 posted on
05/12/2006 8:19:55 AM PDT by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/gasoline_and_government.htm)
To: Phocion
A government program having an effect opposite its intention?
It's all about the money.
"The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, initiated by Congress in 1998, has spent more than $2 billion in taxpayers' money"
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27 posted on
05/12/2006 9:21:14 AM PDT by
mugs99
(Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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