Puzzled at the confusion, Jeroen wrote:
>It amazes me over and over again, the talent of some people on this
>list to misinterpret what I write.
Perhaps you need to be more clear. Please see below.
>Also, I didn't say the US tells their poor "tough luck -- no money,
>no education". That statement was an extreme example of what a
>government that doesn't provide free education *might* say to its
>poor.
Actually, Jeroen, you really *did* say that, whether you meant to or not.
Please reread the following statement you made in regards to the method of
payment for the US education system:
>>How do you handle it in the US? Let parents pay the bill themselves?
>>Then what do you do with children whose parents can't afford it?
>>Tell those kids: "tough luck for you, but it isn't our fault that
>>you weren't born into a rich family, so you'll just have to do
>>without even basic education"?
The way this reads to me is, you asked a question: "How do you handle it in
the US?"
You then aswered that question it with several rhetorical questions/theories
which certainly *appeared* to be you answering your own question. Now, I
can't speak for what you may have *really* meant, but it seemed mighty clear
to me that you were attributing that attitude to the US.
If I said to you, in regards to a country's euthanasia policies: How do you
handle your infirm and aged that don't wish to end their own lives?
And then I followed that question immediately with the following:
Pin them down and suffocate them? End their lives to keep them from being a
drain on the resources of your nation?
How would you take that? What would that say to you? Wouldn't you be
inclined to think that that ignorant attitude was me saying "This is what I
think they do there?"
Jim
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