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- From: sborders@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Borders)
- Subject: Re: Charities in the '80's (was Whining bastards)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.192617.27344@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1992Dec29.193447.16332@rchland.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 19:26:17 GMT
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- dodsonsl@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
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- >ryanm@hardy.u.washington.edu (Ryan Mcneilly) writes:
- >>
- >> You don't seem to understand that we conservitives (most) do care about
- >> the poor, hungry, and homeless. We just don't think the Fed Gov should
- >> solve the problem by throughing in money and socialistic jobs. Instead
- >> we give through private organizations or directly to bypass the waste and
- >> fraud that has run rampid through congress and the white house.
-
- >In most times of prosperity, private donations to charities increased. This
- >didn't happen in the 1980's. Bush's 'thousand points of light' never really
- >took off.
-
- Wrong answer. In the 1980's, charitable contributions *did* increase.
- This quote is from Rush's book:
-
- "As reported in the *National Review*, 'charitable donations
- by individuals rose from $64.7 billion (1990 dollars) in 1980
- to $102 billion in 1989, an increase of 57.7 per cent.
- Moreover, after declining relative to national income during
- the Seventies, charitable donations rose from 2.1 per cent
- of income in 1979 to a record 2.7 per cent in 1989.'"
-
- Hmmmm. Looks like a *few billion* 'points of light' to me. Face it: the
- Eighties *worked*. The rich got richer, *and* the poor got richer.
-
- --
- Scott Borders
- sborders@nyx.cs.du.edu
- borders_scott@tandem.com
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