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  1. Newsgroups: misc.education
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!solman
  3. From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
  4. Subject: Re: What A White Person Learned in College About AfAm Culture
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan3.212307.6498@athena.mit.edu>
  6. Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: m4-035-8.mit.edu
  8. Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  9. References: <14RwVB2w165w@netlink.cts.com> <1992Dec18.045728.27773@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec24.224317.25542@athena.mit.edu> <38069@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
  10. Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:23:07 GMT
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  12.  
  13. In article <38069@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns) writes:
  14. |> In article <1992Dec24.224317.25542@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
  15. |> 
  16. |> # Every single person that lost a job because of this preference
  17. |> # personally owed the veterans a debt. Virtually everybody benefited
  18. |> # from the war (or thought they had), but only the veterans had to
  19. |> # risk their lives.
  20. |> 
  21. |> You don't think that American workers benefitted from having had 10
  22. |> percent of the population excluded from the job market?
  23.  
  24. They probably did. I would say that that was another reason in favor of the
  25. "preference" if it weren't for the fact that the same people that had an
  26. easier time job hunting payed significantly higher taxes to finance the
  27. salaries of those abroad.
  28.  
  29. Jason W. Solinsky
  30.