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To: E who wrote (52247)	8/20/1999 9:56:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Well they WERE survivors. But sometimes surviving makes you twisted. That is why I will always support safety nets. Because although hardship doesn't always make people inured to kindness, and hope, and all the gentler human feelings- it often does. It is just easier, when you are on the edge, when you have almost nothing, to be grasping, and cunning, and to look out for yourself. The selfish thing to do, can be very ugly and base when people are backed up against the kind of wall the depression represented. I do not think FT realizes this. I read the book Angela's Ashes- now there is an even worse childhood than my mother's. Same time period- although they leave a slum in this country for Ireland. And they had 4 or 5 babies die in their family because of a lack of basic necessities. I did not want to make anyone sad- but I think we all know people who were ants (or most of us do) who have had hard times, and who didn't "deserve" what happened to them, but it happened anyway. And if some people take advantage of the saftey nets, if lots of people do, do you throw them away and punish everyone? I want less damaged people in the world, not more.