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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: halfscot who wrote (10146)	1/7/1999 12:48:00 AM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

Yes, some cheek. However, the writer of that article has lived a life entirely different that what you and I have had. Last Saturday for example, the NYTimes had an article on Caspian Sea oil, pointing out among other things, that a year's wage for a grown man was less than $1750. You probably make that in a week or two. There's no way you can understand not being able to afford breakfast at Denny's, or going without real essentials like heat, a shower, food, transportation. Yet many of those countries managed to have limited universal health care and educational standards better than in many of our schools. For someone coming to this country seeing the magnificent achievments of science and technology, of wealth and talent that goes begging for good things to do.. but instead finds real poverty and sickness, a health system that accuses patients of trying to be sick instead of guaranteeing basic health services. A prison system that's packed with the highest population of prisoners in the world... that person has to stand back and wonder what's happened to the American dream. If you haven't then its time you did. I was walking into Macy's just before Christmas to buy some gifts. It was cold outside and a Salvation Army volunteer was ringing his bell for donations. I stood outside with him for an hour and watched who was generous and who wasn't. For the most part it was the poor who gave and the well to do who hurried by with nothing but their own poverty and expensive gifts on their mind.