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Has there ever been a successful government program?

radcen said:
Or, maybe I do, and you don't like the answer.
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No, no. What your wrote in your opening post clearly displays you really have no clue how government programs work, else you wouldn't have posted such ridiculous garbage.

But, hey, for the sake of conversation, let's say you're correct.
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Yeah, let's just leave it in the air and "say" I'm correct.

I note that you made zero effort to enlighten me.
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I'm not sure somebody who thinks government programs are made to "end" can really be enlightened.

Let me put it to you this way. Do you think the purpose of having a police force is to "end" crime?
 
sangha said:
But the program was a success.

That was your question. There's your answer
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Then it is blindingly obvious that you didn't understand the question. The program, albeit renamed, still exists. That's the core point of the question.


sangha said:
Here's another - The program to kill Osama bin Laden.

Mission accomplished, and the dept has been shut down
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Really? I was not aware that the US military has since been shut down, and the "war on terror" ended. I must've missed the network news that night.
 
Translation: You got nothin'.
 
radcen said:
Then it is blindingly obvious that you didn't understand the question. The program, albeit renamed, still exists. That's the core point of the question.
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The program has ended.

The agency that was in charge of the program still exists

Your criteria was demented, which is why no one agrees with you. That should be a clue, but some people don't know what to do with a clue




Really? I was not aware that the US military has since been shut down, and the "war on terror" ended. I must've missed the network news that night.
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I see you're sticking with the demented argument that we still have a program to kill OBL. :screwy
 

As I have said before, the concept was too much for you. Carry on.
 
radcen said:
Translation: You got nothin'.
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No, I did indeed pose a question in answer to your plea for me to "enlighten you". One you've yet to answer.
 
radcen said:
Can somebody name one... just one... government program that was such an unqualified success, and because it was a success, that it was ended because it was no longer needed?
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The Civil War.
 
Heebie Jeebie said:
Don't forget the Revolutionary War, The Indian Wars, WWI and WWII, and many others if you're counting individual wars as programs.
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They were all successful, and they all came to an end!
 
Heebie Jeebie said:
Don't forget the Revolutionary War, The Indian Wars, WWI and WWII, and many others if you're counting individual wars as programs.
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Technically, the Revolutionary War wouldn't count because the US government did not yet exist. Though real wars... as opposed to "wars", i.e.: 'war on drugs', etc... wouldn't qualify as a program.
 
radcen said:
Technically, the Revolutionary War wouldn't count because the US government did not yet exist. Though real wars... as opposed to "wars", i.e.: 'war on drugs', etc... wouldn't qualify as a program.
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The War on Drugs should count as 5 failed programs because we've been losing it for so long!
 
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