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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: Living in a State of Siege
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:57:05 GMT
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- In article <1i80iqINN879@gap.caltech.edu> peri@cco.caltech.edu (Michal Leah Peri) writes:
- >gazit@duke.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit) writes:
- >
- >>4) Older women have more money than older men and therefore they
- >> have access to better medical care.
- >
- >Not so. Elderly men are usuallly better off than elderly women.
- >
- >Eg, the Economist (12/26/92, p. 39):
- >In the next century some of society's poorest people will be elderly
- >women...
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-
- This is misleading. *Statistically* older men have more
- money than older women simply because older women have a lot
- of poor elderly women to drag their average down. There are,
- simply, less men left. The men who get to this age are typicall
- men that have had money to lead a comfortable life.
-
- Older women typically have the money from their dead husband's
- life insurance.
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-
- --
- Blaming "society" for your problems is like blaming clouds for rain.
- --- boycott == coercion == censorship == closed mindedness == cowardice ---
- "Psalms 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want."
- Shepherds are for sheep. ----- Pain teaches.
-