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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.space,net.columbia,net.followup
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Children's Fund
Message-ID: <260@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 06:43:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 06:43:10 1986
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Summary: NOT slanging Europe, please note!

In article <981@dcl-cs.UUCP> craig@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Craig Wylie) writes:
>(klr@hadron)
>>>>	A trust fund has been established ...
>(Francois Felix INGRAND)
>>>Is the Social Budget of USA so poor that American people must create a fund
>>>for the astronauts' children? 
>(Joseph S. D. Yao <jsdy@hadron>)
>>No, Francois.  The hearts of some Americans are so large, that they
>>wish to do so.  This is a voluntary trust:  unlike Social Security
>>and taxes, no one need contribute who does not wish to.  Assez bien?
>
>Look we are getting racist again, this and other similar postings
>are begining to look as if people are about to start on the old
>trans-Atlantic slanging match. It must be at least 2 months since
>we last did this over net.internat.

Craig,
I'm quite distressed that you could read the above as slanging
anybody, or being at all racist.  Please read it again, without
any prejudgments about Americans being whatever.  All I said
was that some Americans specifically wanted to help some other
people.  It is quite clear that this faculty is in no wise
limited to either Americans or to space children.  Examples
of the first you are possibly more familiar with than I, and
include the recent benefit concerts for the starving folk in
Africa, much like the one in the States.  Examples of the latter
can be heard all over here, in the almost incessant benefits
being given for the poor, the ill, the disabled, the homeless,
or practically any distressed group one can imagine.  This seems
to be related to the American brand of socialism, which is to
say that those who have often (and unfortunately not always)
will make a point of giving to some central fund to make sure
that those who have not, might.
-- 

	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}