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- From: smithw@col.hp.com (Walter Smith)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: EE statements (was: Re: Attention Skiers Boycotting Colorado)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 01:12:35 GMT
- Organization: Colorado Springs IT Center
- Lines: 46
- Message-ID: <1hthe3INNa5s@hp-col.col.hp.com>
- References: <1992Dec31.002311.28876@lclark.edu>
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- snodgras@lclark.edu (Bil Snodgrass) writes:
- > My insurance premium is higher because I have to pay heterosexuals
- > to have children. So are the tax payers.
-
- Would you feel better if people stopped having children? Or if
- insurance didn't cover dependants? Or if there was legislation
- that required a certain level of financial wealth before someone
- can have kids? ie; what are you offering as a better way, or
- are you just pissing in the wind?
-
- > Married people all over the country are asking that their companies help
- > with child care...they are pushing the U.S. government real hard on
- > this one. Again we have to pay for their children....
-
- Would you feel better if companies ignored the needs of their
- employees families? Do you think this would make the overall
- situation better?
-
- > This is wrong. Why should companies give out welfare because people
- > are married?
-
- Welfare, eh? Sure. Ultimately, companies will do what they think is
- best for them. Companies think paying married people more money, since
- they have more responsibilities, is good business; you evidently have
- a problem with that? Would you like to be able to dictate that
- companies can't do that? Sounds like plain old sour grapes...
-
- > We also as a society have to pay to feed, clothe, house and render
- > medical care to neglected children.....
- > We have to pay for police protection to protect us from the teenage
- > gangs.......
-
- And this from the guy who above was complaining about money for
- child care, so parents can take better care of their kids?
- Makes a lot of sense...or are you just lashing out at anything
- and everything?
-
- > But for some reason the traditional family who use to do everything on
- > its own now has to have handouts from society and work to support their
- > habits.....
-
- Their 'child' habit..do you wish your parents had been 'cured' of
- their habit?
-
- Walter
-
-