RE: Gummint programs and stats (was RE: Presidents RE: Corruption ...)

[Nick Arnett]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Steve Sloan

[snip]

> The same holds true for the people in California. A lot
> of California's inhabitants were driven there by the
> Dust Bowl in the Midwest and South, who moved to
> California looking for a better economy and a chance
> at a better life. The same is true for the people who
> left Mexico to move to California.

Have you read "The Grapes of Wrath"?  And if so, do you really recommend
that system?  Are you saying that should be our goal?  Steinbeck wrote it to
show how horrible it was and here you are saying... what?

Let's see if I can recall the story.  Big companies bought up the farmland
in Oaklahoma, forced people out of their homes.  They heard that they could
find plenty of work in California, so they headed there, with barely enough
to survive.  People died along the way from the harsh conditions.  When they
arrived, they found that they could only work by crossing union picket
lines, the wages were less than they could live on, and the people who
employed them were abusive.

What is the parallel we should be drawing today?

Nick