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From: kwan@smeagol.UUCP (Richard Kwan)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Scuttle the Space Program?
Message-ID: <606@smeagol.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 19:21:12 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 15 19:21:12 1986
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Organization: Spacecraft Data Systems, JPL, Pasadena, CA
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In <3192@umcp-cs.UUCP>, C. Wingate writes:
> Nonsense.  Even the poor of today enjoy a much higher standard of living
> than their anscestors did.

This is not intended as a chastisement of Mr. Wingate.  But I just can't
let this one go.

It is perhaps true that the standard of living for poverty level in the
U.S. is better than for poor of the past.  HOWEVER, there is a large
segment of the poor who are starving to death in Ethopia and elsewhere.

If it is available in your area, turn on your late night TV and look
at the pleas for donations from WorldVision or other select groups
(I certainly don't endorse all of them).  If you haven't been
anesthetized by the media already, it will make your stomach craw.

By the way, I favor WorldVision.  I also favor the U.S. space program.
Don't ask me to harmonize that.

And I hope not to say any more about that in this newsgroup.

		Rick Kwan
		JPL Spacecraft Data Systems