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To: Lane3 who wrote (10598)	2/2/2006 8:15:34 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541851

If your regular waitress usually gets a two dollar tip from you for your regular lunch and one day you give her a buck fifty, you aren't taking anything away from her. Technically, legally, in a court of law, and in a debate you are probably right and you will probably win your case. But for the waitress's child in school who normally gets $2.00 for lunch, but because you cut down on your tipping, the waitress would have to cut down her child's lunch money. Something was taken away from her (perhaps she could do without milk). You could be right. So what? The child losing her milk money is not your fault. I'll agree with you on that. So what? Life is not all about being right - technically.

To: Lane3 who wrote (10598)	2/2/2006 9:01:33 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541851

If your regular waitress usually gets a two dollar tip from you for your regular lunch and one day you give her a buck fifty, you aren't taking anything away from her. I think, in some genuinely fundamental sense, we differ right here. This illustration which I know you mean as only that nonetheless trivializes the plight of the poor when their medicaid benefits are cut (or not increased enough to cover inflation in health care services and thus they receive less services). These are not "tips"; they are essential parts of simply getting by. They are as important as wages, housing, you name it. I think you look at medicaid as something like a gratuity, a gift to a charity. Not as one of the several things that government activity actually, I'm a bit surprised I'm typing it but here you go, helps others in difficulty and enhances our humanity. So there you go.