random@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (07/20/86)
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Subject: Re: Poli-Sci Digest V6 #13
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 86 14:50:05 -0500
From: random@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
One major omission in you list of things that welfare should provide -
adequatehealth care - ( it is also dubious as to weather the levels of
food, clothing, and shelter that are provided are sufficient for a
country that is as wealthy as the U.S. is ). I also think that your
statement that you know many college students who earn less than the
poverty level is patently absurd. To attend school today costs
anywhere from a few thousand dollars to seventeen thousand ( total
costs ). This level of earnings definitely puts students above the so
called poverty level. At M.I.T. ., the seventeen thousand school,
fewer than one half of the students receive any financial aid at all.
In fact most of the money necessary to attend school in this country
comes from either the government - in the form of loans or grants
whose size and ease of acquisition are unknown to people on welfare -
or the student's parents. There are hungry, homeless, and sick people
in this country and they do ! not choose to be that way. To
insinuate that college students - the biggest country club this world
has known - are worse off than the poor is a gross insult to those who
have been swept under bthe societal rug.
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