Xref: utzoo misc.kids:8764 comp.edu:2243 sci.med:9973 misc.headlines:8332 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!aoa!carl From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) Newsgroups: misc.kids,comp.edu,sci.med,misc.headlines Subject: Re: U.S. Far Behind In Health Care, Education : Panel Finds Message-ID: <784@aoa.UUCP> Date: 5 May 89 11:55:26 GMT References: <1843@ccnysci.UUCP# <1303@optilink.UUCP> Reply-To: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA Lines: 32 In article <1303@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes: >In article <1843@ccnysci.UUCP#, patth@ccnysci.UUCP (Patt Haring) writes: > >#sharp increase in poverty, especially among the young, in the past decade, the >#committee said that ``the puzzle is that poverty is still so much higher than >#in the l970s even though unemployment is significantly lower.'' ``A most > >The word is LAZINESS. Maybe you oughtta take a look at the definition of unemployment. Those who have given up registering @ the unemployment office are no longer counted. You oughtta look at the difference between percents and aggregate sums. You oughtta look at people who want to work but lose their welfare/WIC if they do, not to mention who can't get subsidized daycare. This is already a flame. I knew I should have ignored this dopey poster. > >As the noted social reformer Jacob Riis observed at the turn of the >century, "Some people bring their slums with them." Uh=huh. >Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer >Governments that don't trust most people with weapons, deserve no trust. This .sig sentence is truly disgusting. -- Alix' Dad ( Carl Witthoft @ Adaptive Optics Associates) " Axis-navigo, ergo sum." {harvard,ima}!bbn!aoa!carl 54 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge,MA 02140 617-864-0201 "disclaimer? I'm not a doctor, but I do have a Master's Degree in Science!"