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The Government Maze
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Item Title The Government Maze
Guest Kemp, Jack
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedJune 02, 1989
Description

Even when he is talking about the most dismal topics--poverty, homelessness, despair--Mr. Kemp can't help being exuberant: "I'm saying with all my heart that I don't think we ought to leave fighting poverty to the Left. We know what cures poverty: jobs and education and housing and opportunities." WFB: "The Left don't know how to cure poverty-- Charles Murray proved that definitively." JK: "They know how to

redistribute bread. We've got to show people how to create bakeries." ... JK: "The foreign minister of Vietnam the other day ... said that rent controls have done to Hanoi what American bombs could not do: 'It destroyed our housing stock. We were stupid'-- quote, unquote--'and we must change.' Now goodness gracious, if Communists can change ... maybe some of the cities of the United States can reconsider the type of policies that diminish the stock of housing and affordable housing for the poor."

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Place RecordedWashington, District of Columbia, United States
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0820
Record Number80040.1068
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