Something to Think About

``Coming to office in 1981, President Reagan...curtailed or cut back on social services with primary impact on the poor. And, as also noted, he reduced personal income and corporation taxes with by far the greatest benefit to the very affluent. The justification, namely that the rich were not working and investing because they had too little money and that the poor were not working because, in the form of government benefits, they had too much, was not intrisically persuasive...No one should be fooled. In a generally affluent society we must expect the affluent to reward not poverty but affluence.''

- John Kenneth Galbraith

in The Affluent Society, 4th Ed. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1984, pp. xxviii-xxix.