Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:58:57 -0400
Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
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From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bears and grey water. Done
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Say what?
Until there were free public schools and legal requirements that kids attend
them, most children were not educated. Illiterate. You may think that the
public schools aren't good enough, and I certainly won't argue with you on
that, but not having a system of public education would be an awful lot
worse. The millionaire lawyers you don't like would be the only ones whose
kids could even get an education.
I'd rather see the public sector do more, not less, on medical care.
There's how many people in this country with no insurance and therefore no
access to medical care unless they can pay the full costs personally? I
think that's immoral, myself, and we should all share the risks of health
problems so everyone can get access to medical care when they need it. I
don't see that happening if the government doesn't make it happen. Which of
course isn't likely, but that's another matter.
J.
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Joy Hecht
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
For musings about life and the vanadventures:
http://users.rcn.com/jhecht/gypsy
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inal Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of Mark Edwards
:::Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 12:44 PM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: Bears and grey water. Done
:::
:::> It's also really easy to see
:::>how life would be much harder for many people if we didn't have
:::>government (no schools, no public access to medical care at all,
:::
:::What?????
:::
:::I wrote an inflammatory reply, but fortunately for me, and everyone else,
:::I recovered my senses in time to delete it rather than posting it.
:::
:::I think excercising such restraint, plus the fact that its friday, means
:::I
:::ought to at least be able to call "BS!" give a really loud bronx cheer to
:::the above statement, and to comment that as much as I love the National
:::Parks and related lands, I would trade them in a minute if our government
:::would get the hell out of the education and medical business. Placing
:::such
:::an important part of our well-being in the hands of an elite group of
:::millionaire lawyers and alchoholics has proven to be a fatal mistake.
:::Nothing good has ever come from any of their illegal, unauthorized
:::intrusions into those two fields, and nothing ever will.
:::
:::<everything else snipped>
:::
:::Happy Friday.
:::
:::Mark
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