[lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:33:21 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/24/2005 12:20:55 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Paying taxes for months on end
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> >I don't get your last statement, though. The U.S. is a third world
> >country because of ... ?
>
> I'm equating "social services being eliminated" with "USA" and your
> admonishment for me to 'take a look at a third world country. IN the
grand
> scheme of things, I don't think America rates very high on the 'social
> services' ladder. My question was... is THE USA a third world country?
I'll
> change it to "is the USA in danger of BECOMING a third world country?"
>
A.A. When the price of an ordinary car is half a year's salary for an
average person, I'd say that's pretty third world. Beyond that, though, we
do have social services, SS, Medicare, Medicaid. I was thinking along the
lines of many South and Central American countries where there are poor and
rich and no middle class and certainly no social services. That's where
the U.S. is heading.
Andy
> singing along to Devo,
> p
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