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To: laura_bush who wrote (20300)	2/28/2004 8:56:10 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81886

laura > Lock the poor bastards up -- permanently -- if they develop high blood pressure or diabetes. It's THEIR FAULT, after all. Inferior specimens: That's capitalism for you --- and now Alan Greenspan says that social benefits must be cut even more severely or else there will be a "slower growth in living standards." I wonder if he realized the contradiction in what he said? usatoday.com But, as your article says, at least those in jail do get medical services. >>>Our prisons do offer health care--grossly inadequate care to be sure--but at least it's free, even for child molesters, ax murderers, and those miscreants who have the gall to be both sick and uninsured.<<< > In South Africa, the Poor Could Win the Water Battle And at what cost, I wonder? In SA there is about 40% unemployment, economic growth about 1% per annum (which means no growth); one of the highest tax rates in the world; social services, hospitals and schools completely overrun by millions of illegal African "immigrants" from the whole continent, as well as the highest number of AIDS sufferers in the world; and a government administration which is completely incompetent and concerned only about affirmative action or transformation, as it is know here. I regret to say that winning the "water battle" in South Africa could be like winning a hand of poker on the Titanic.