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On Sun, 11 Oct 98 21:35:07 GMT, Phil Hunt <philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <36210bb8.21864159@news.concentric.net>
>           darrow@oneillaw.com "M O'Neill" writes:
>> Hey fella, I agree with your comments as well.  Be careful with your
>> attributions.  Don't you think it's possible for a free society to
>> meet its humanitarian obligations?  What country takes better care of
>> its poor than the US?
>
>Most western European states, for example.
>
>> We hardly know what poverty is in this country.
>
>Then you are ignorant. 

	One would not get that impression from listening 
	to Ozzy Osbourne and his own accounts of growing up
	in Britain. They make me really appreciate that trailer 
	park I was subjected to as a young child & the white
	trash neighborhoods I was subjected to later.

>
>Consider that in the USA infant mortality is a lot higher than in
>Britain, despite the fact that healthcare spending per person is
>4 times as much. The reason is (at least in part) that in the USA
>most of the healthcare spend goes on the rich, so babies born into
>poor families get to die.

	It never hindered any of my less rich kin.
	State subsidies can only get you to a certain
	point, or rather take you from a certain point.

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