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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (1098)	11/21/1999 4:18:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 12231

< Wanda Kendrick, a single mother from Stamford, has been on and off welfare for the past seven years. In January, her benefits will run out for good, and she already is worried about how she will afford an apartment, day care and food for her four kids, even if she is able to land a full-time job. > Where's Wanda's husband? Why doesn't he pay for the children and her? The information given is useless by itself. Where are her parents? How old are her children? Why don't they help her? Start with him and work back from there. On the ever increasing gap between the rich and poor, that will necessarily happen as the scope for earning heaps increases. The gap should increase hugely and millions of people will achieve amazing incomes compared with what was possible even 50 years ago. The gap must increase because people at the bottom, at zero, can't go lower than zero health, wealth and happiness because then they are dead. Zero has always been zero. So saying the gap is increasing is a GOOD thing. We want a BIG gap! The bigger the better. The more at the rich end the better. All they can do with their money is spend it. If few have anything to spend, then there won't be much spending going on. The problem is that some people have low value because there is little they can do of value. Laws exist to stop people hiring them to do things [such as laws which stop easy hiring and firing]. Racist laws. Laws which create credentialism - people hire credentials rather than skills. Minimum wage laws which sound good but stop hiring and reduce the demand for people as machines displace low income people or the benefit low paid people would provide is foregone which increases costs to others. For example, sorting rubbish would be economic, but maybe low paid. So the rubbish is simply dumped and buried. The low paid people remain unemployed. The glass, metals, papers and plastics are buried instead of recycled. Everyone is worse off. All due to minimum wage laws. In India, rubbish gets recycled and people do it for pitiful rewards. It is morally repugnant to see the waste in rich countries while people in India sort through the most pathetic trash to get a few plastic bags, bottles or bits of paper. The fault is with India, NOT the rich countries. India will not allow rich countries to invest and reap the profit. I spent a day watching a rubbish bin from a hotel room. Odd entertainment you might say, but there was the surrounding scene too and I won't go into the reasons. The large rubbish bin was the local recycling facility. Women did the recycling, carting around large sacking or plastic bags collecting what had some tiny value. Dogs ate some stuff. Cows ate the vegetation. Crows and cats got what the rest left. I suppose rats wouldn't have a show against the cats and dogs - I didn't see any of them. Do away with minimum wage laws! They don't help people, they cause waste and replacement of people with machines. Thanksgiving eh? Must be a time of guilt and confusion. Anyway, the single most important question was unanswered. WHERE IS WANDA'S HUSBAND? Mqurice