> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 04:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Housing Out of Reach
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:32:13AM +0100, Rik Burke wrote:
>
> > My point, however, I think still stands. Which was that 60%
> of the US
> > population earn les than twice the minimum wage, or thereabouts.
>
> That wasn't what you wrote.
>
> > And the fact that they aren't a one-parent family doesn't mean that
> > it's easy for a single person with no kids to survive.
>
> It doesn't mean it is hard either. In fact, it doesn't mean
> anything. As I said, the statistic you quote was irrelevant.
>
> > Convince me that the orginal stat was irrelevant. I don't want a
> > slanging match here, I want to learn.
>
> This is getting absurd. You are the proselytizer, you need to
> convince me that your stat is relevant, not the other way
> round. But don't bother, as I said, you already lost my
> interest before. I'm out now.
Typical of the academic argument model, but hardly productive outside that realm.
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