Suppose someone is drowning 20 feet from shore. We throw him 10 feet of rope and he drowns. It would be illogical to conclude: "Rope is useless in the prevention of drowning." But this is the logic of the Governor's claims that most government-funded social assistance programs are "based on the assumption that any social problem can be solved simply by throwing enough tax dollars at it." No one with any understanding of our social problems has ever made such a stupid and simplistic assumption, yet the Governor persists in spreading the myth that only such an assumption can justify social assistance programs