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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (38034)	7/29/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

The reality is Ron that we are not in some ways much better of but we have space and we see within lower income earners a similar situation . Within our large cities we have problems. We have one million homeless children Ron. We have five million children in the care of grandparents. Hutch can better answer this than me in Canada where 8 percent is not a unusual figure how many homeless children are there? I dont know but somehow i think these nations have become too hopeful of the American dream with populous that doesn't fit into our grand scheme . So we have reduced labor cost due to the fact there are so many alternatives for us, but with strong dollars the alternatives become less and less and from the look of our employment figures we are in inflation bound due to our own social system. We have minimum wage. Elderly to pay more in medical fees from 2000 Yomiuri Shimbun To respond to spiraling medical costs, the Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday decided that, under a new insurance scheme, people aged 70 or over should shoulder about 10 percent of their medical costs from April 2000. minimal difference in my mind.