----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Denton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:03 PM Subject: Re: Medicaid Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis
On 5/3/05, Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/2/05, Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 02 May 2005 20:18:41 -0400, JDG wrote > > > > > Feel free to refer to the inconvenient figures you snipped without response > > > from my last message in your answer. > > > > Past figures don't address today's problems unless we're limiting ourselves to > > two ideological choices. I'm not going to start debating that ideology. > > > > Over the last few decades, *nobody* has prevented poverty from increasing even > > as the nation gains wealth. > > > > Nick > I think I am in the odd position of disagreeing with both of you. > > I need to find a source for some valid figures of poverty. I think the census bureau's figures are pretty well trusted. Somehow I amplification > ^^^ and Medicaid > don't trust the ones provided earlier. the GAO is fairly decent at that. Medicaid spending has gone through the roof as the result of so many elderly in nursing homes who have worked through their savings...or have earlier passed savings on to their kids. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
