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To: ahhaha who wrote (3167)	10/18/2001 1:42:21 AM
From: Mark Adams	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

Calvanism Yet another word to look up. Yesterday it was animism... m-w.com m-w.com

To: ahhaha who wrote (3167)	10/18/2001 3:29:43 AM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 24758

When I was a little boy after WW2, a registered nurse would visit every mother with a new baby. Rich family, poor family, made no difference. Visited them all. The object was healthy babies (and, perhaps, happy mothers). I instinctively liked this public health program. It could be argued it was an investment. Bit difficult to quantify the cost-benefit but it's reasonable to believe a healthy baby will do well as it grows into school, adulthood, etc. That it won't cost the health system too much, etc. In any case health insurance was very primitive then and if you were poor the first person you stiffed was the doctor because he came after rent, heat, food, clothes. The program obviously didn't cost a whole lot. There wasn't much money to go around back then. Of course the program doesn't exist anymore. Didn't cost enough, I expect. Couple of families I knew had problems. They slipped their kids into the protestant orphanage for a few months while they sorted themselves out. They didn't need a social worker to 'effectuate' this or a piece of paper from the welfare department. Fairly informal. If you were 12 and ran away from home, you could get a real job. These days it's against the law to hire 12 year olds even though the employed kid's situation might be better than what he ran away from. Today I met a kid who was panhandling. "Could I help her out until she could qualify for welfare?" Not, " Till she found a job." At her age she can't be legally hired, so what's the illegal job she's going to get? (There was a BS quotient there because she's too young to qualify for welfare). I'm not suffering from nostalgia. There's not enough freedom to make mistakes and get in trouble and then get out of it, because in the last fifty years the avenues have been skinnied down to a narrow gate guarded by careerists. The world is as unsafe as it ever was.