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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
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Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Children's Fund
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 11:11:05 EST
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In article <6769@boring.UUCP> budd@boring.UUCP (Tim Budd) writes:
>>>Perhaps you are unfamiliar with such things, Monsieur Ingrand, but here in the
>>>United States we like to take care of our own.
>
>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.
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