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Under the leadership of President George W. Bush, who has made competitive bidding for the provision of government services a priority, the Administration has begun to take serious steps to expand competition for federal grants. This is wise policy. Besides promoting basic fairness, competitive bidding encourages greater efficiencies and cost savings.

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that from nick of reason.com and reason tv. who will have a few things to say about it, im sure. if you look around right now, you can see pretty obviously, i think, that the major institution of the modern welfare state are beginning show their strains, lets say. after all, you look at the fact that we have, right now, at the federal level 126 separate federal antipoverty programs. they cost about $866 billion a year. and yet, poverty rates go up. we spend more every year on education...

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