At 08:30 PM 4/25/01 -0700, you wrote:
Einstein used to use royalty checks as bookmarks. He was not poor by any
means.
I understand that he was able to avoid poverty because others helped him
deal with complications of everyday life that most of can deal with but he
couldn't. This is a symptom
This explains Microsoft documentation and 'help' files. I do hope though
that Bill has the foresight to make provision in his will to follow in the
footsteps of Jeremy Bentham. Alt-Ctrl-Del . . .
Jim Devine wrote,
BTW, Bill Gates is clearer: there was a story in TIME awhile back that
described
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Our society tends to rank everyone along a single scale, things like IQ, but
ultimately how much money one makes as income. (The use of IQ is justified by
pointing to how well it allegedly predicts income.) But that kind of thing would doom
people like my son,
Too many people aren't working and I don't think the focus should be
held to work. That is their line. Productionism/productivism is not
my Utopia.
Marta
Charles Brown wrote:
Even Bush forecasts economic downturn. Why not reknit the safety net ? War No. 2 on
Poverty ?
Lyndon Johnson
The public is willing, or at least more willing,
to fight poverty with jobs that pay a living wage
(or wages plus benefits), than it is with transfer
payments according to income.
A more immediate problem is that people think
the war on poverty has been won due to welfare
reform.
max
Even
Mine neither. But there is zero political support
these days for aid to those deemed capable of work,
outside of employment.
max
Too many people aren't working and I don't think the focus should be
held to work. That is their line. Productionism/productivism is not
my Utopia.
Marta
Max wrote:
A more immediate problem is that people think
the war on poverty has been won due to welfare
reform.
so what's going to happen with welfare reform if there's a recession? the
whole program seems predicated on perpetual prosperity.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Max wrote:
A more immediate problem is that people think
the war on poverty has been won due to welfare
reform.
so what's going to happen with welfare reform if there's a recession? the
whole program seems predicated on perpetual prosperity.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The issue of disability poverty is rarely raised in these discussions
on poverty and employment. Over 70% of disabled persons say they
would like to have a job, yet our unemployment rate is astronomical -
about two thirds of working age disabled persons age 16 to 64 are
without employment. this
Marta's note about disability and poverty makes me think about David's
question about the economy. Tim's Chico Examiner just published a
wonderful article about a young man died. He was a physical disaster.
Doctors recommended that his parents just let him die, time and time
again. Yet he
After 2002, when the five year limit expires, it could easily--with a
recession-- be 1932 again. There will be a surge in the homeless population,
and some of the strictures on welfare will be loosened when the rest of the
population trips ever more often over homeless people. For the moment,
Those people who provided services for him had a job because of his
need and hopefully were well paid -- so though I dislike commodifying
disability which home care corporations and other disability based
business' do, there is a need that gets met by both a worker and the
disabled person. We
Michael Perelman writes: Marta's note about disability and poverty makes me think
about
David's question about the economy. Tim's Chico Examiner just published a wonderful
article about a young man [who] died. He was a physical disaster. Doctors recommended
that his parents just let him die,
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Michael Perelman writes: Marta's note about disability and poverty makes me think
about
David's question about
Make what do you think of the slogan: Bring back welfare ! ( It's a jungle out there
for some )
Charles
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Right now it's hopeless.
I prefer "Make work pay!"
Work-conditioned benefits, and
gigunda refundable tax credits.
max
Make what do you think of the slogan: Bring back welfare ! ( It's a jungle
out there for some )
Charles
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