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A bit glib, but untrue?
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06/10/2006 18:40:50
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., Nouvelle Zélande
 
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Thomas,

Basically, I think that the value system and attitude of our nation has no place for anyone in need, unless it has political value.

I don't know. In my young "Dr Kildare" days I worked in a mission hospital on the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique, all completely funded by a midwest church congregation who sought no publicity or benefits of any kind. The US doctor there said he wanted to adopt one of the local orphans who showed heaps of promise but had no hope in that country, and he actually did take the boy home with his own kids a year or so after I left.

In the case of illegal workers I think many US people think it is a victimless crime and may actually be of great assistance to these families.

Re meeting up- that would be absolutely fabulous at this point, but I'm just about to get onto a flight going East in another jetlag spectacular. One day we *will* meet up over a dark frothy beast!
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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