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To the editor:
For a wonderful moment, I thought the war was over, the good guys had won, and we could all go home.
Why not, Mr. Putnam asks, get the government out of farming, out of industry, out of social security, out ‘of banking, out of regulation and out of all the other places that it subsidizes or protects? Glory hallelujah! I was ready to dance all the way home, doing a handstand from time to time, and then he rained all over my parade. "And of course," he added, “we don’t want that.”
We don’t? Be it known that there are great numbers of people out here who want exactly that, who realize that almost all of the trouble this country is having tod4V is the direct result of government subsidizing or
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