Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:37:13 EST
From: <DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.medicine
Subject: Re: An Approach to National Health Care

In article <1ee2poINNiko@travis.csd.harris.com>, kbeal@amber (Ken Beal) says:
>
>        I somewhat agree with the 7-page post.  It seems well-though-out,
>but there is a serious consideration that the Americans with Disabilities
>act flies in the face of:
>
>        IT IS A JUNGLE!!!
>
>        (btw, I am not looking for flames, just discussion...)
>
>        People seem to have forgotten their origins.  We didn't just "land"
>here after the world was created, and some "God" figure made us lord of
>all we see -- the Bible is probably a major source of resource mis-allocation
>and hardships.
>
>        By giving everyone free health care, we are essential wasting away
>the gene pool.  In inner cities, there are people on welfare having 7 children
>starting at age 14 because they *perceive* that they will make more if they
>do so (especially if they are a single parent).  (I realize that raising a

According to the Census Bureau, what percent of women on AFDC have 3 or
more children??

Under 10%

>child takes a lot *more* than the extra "bonus" check, but many people do
>not take the time or the intelligence to do the whole calculation.)
>
>        One of the fortunes on this Unix system is: "Global intelligence is a
>constant.  The population is growing."  Sad, but true: inner city rabbit
>breeding, while intelligent couples realize either a) they can't afford
>tons of kids, or b) the world is overcrowded so let's only have one or two.
>What can be done to reverse this trend?  I am considering having many
>children, but a) that would make me poor and thus is not a good use of
>the intelligence I was granted, and b) it *would* increase the number of
>people on the Earth, and they'd be poor at that due to a).
>
>        Now, I will probably be flamed for being white, male, 23,
>middle-class, and healthy.  I'm not sure how to respond to this, because,
>you're right, I have *absolutely* no concept of life in the inner city,
>of starving, of being sick with no hope for getting better.  I can't see
>from my left eye, and have been like that since birth; while this may
>help me advance due to the Americans with Disabilities act, I don't *like*
>that fact nor do I plan to use it.  To put someone with no hands in a
>secretarial position simply to fulfill quotas is a misuse of the Earth's
>resources, and an injustice to the WASP who *has* both hands and is
>therefore better qualified.
>
>        I suppose you could say I'm anti-human.  Not necessarily *all*
>humans, but the lazy ones, the lawyers among us, who sue at the drop of
>a hat and in general try to accumulate as many resources with as little
>possible work *regardless* of who gets hurt (and I realize that, without
>that "regardless," I just described every organism's goal).
>
>        So, a question: is there any way to educate people to be motivated,
>to do things for themselves *and others*?  It would be nice if there were
>some sort of symbiosis to the human culture, instead of a dog-eat-dog
>world.
>
>        And I've rambled enough.  What do *you* think?
>--
>Kenneth L. Beal, Jr.                    kbeal@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com
>"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!" - MST3k
>"Street person my responsibility." - Indigo Girls
>The opinions expressed above are shared.  The preceding sentence is false.


Dennis G. Shea, Penn State
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