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From: kgd@rlvd.UUCP (Keith Dancey)
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Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Children's Fund
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 11:47:12 EST
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In article <967@celtics.UUCP> roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese) writes:
>>As an American currently living in Europe, I find statements such as this
>>almost painfully embarrassing.  When one compares the health care system in
>>Europe, the support for housewifes and children, and so on and on to the
>>social programs in the United States, it is sadly all to clear how poor a 
>>job America does of ``taking care of its own''.
>>
>>--tim budd
>
>The point was that AMERICA doesn't HAVE to, because AMERICANS do.


That is a proud boast and Americans are certainly generous people.  Does it
always work, I wonder?
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