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Brian, I don't see FEMA/red-cross and welfare as being in the same category. I think of them as an insurance supplement to bolster affected regions, and since it comes and goes with disasters it's much less ripe for continued abuse.
I don't believe all govt assistance should be removed but it could sure use an infusion of tough-love.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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