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2016 Postmortem

alcibiades_mystery

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4. That is of course the goal...the problem, as Hoover found out, is that private groups can't do it

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Tue Feb 26, 2013, 07:56 PM

Feb 2013

Only government can support modern societies. The opposition to that support is ideological in the worst sense - a belief that refuses to grapple with evidence and reality. The notion that private charities can pick up the entirety of the need in modern societies is childish nonsense. They can't even pick up 1/1000th of the need. It's pure idiocy.

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Is this the goal? To transfer responsibilities from government to private groups? [View all] question everything Feb 2013 OP

Of course it is. This is the ultimate goal of everything they do. drm604 Feb 2013 #1

Yes. silverweb Feb 2013 #2

NIH is critical for new discoveries greymattermom Feb 2013 #3

That is of course the goal...the problem, as Hoover found out, is that private groups can't do it alcibiades_mystery Feb 2013 #4

This is what I think. But people do not think beyond their immediate question everything Feb 2013 #5