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Entry: Neocons and the Left: Know Your Enemies Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/neocons_and_the_left_know_your_enemies#2487 Post contents: What I propose is that relief for the poor be granted on the basis of individual merit. I propose that those who are poor because they are orphans, cripples, aged and infirm, etc., be given compassionate relief. I propose that we waste no more of the taxpayers' money on those who are poor because they are merely stupid and shiftless. Why try to educate the ineducable or find responsible employment for the unemployable? These are vain hopes. Give such people simple menial tasks to do that are within their capacities and let them eke out whatever humble livings they can. IQ testing is less important in identifying the dull, whose dullness is often obvious, than it is in finding the gifted, whose gifts may not be so obvious. There is no reason why egalitarian scruples should be allowed to prevent our recognizing that different educational programs are appropriate for persons with IQs of 90 than are for those with IQs of 130. The former may be fit only to clean floors or chop wood - give them brooms or axes and be done with them. Great pains need to be taken with the educatiions of the latter to help them live up to their potentials as future leaders of society. What is wrong with that? Sent at: 2008 05 15