On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:24:58 -0500, DSK wrote:



Dave Hall wrote:
Oh please! You are really reaching. The parks are free.

Wrong again, Dave. Many many parks are no longer free.

... Anyone can
visit them, rich and poor alike.


JohnH wrote:
Dave, have you been to Yellowstone lately? I doubt many poor people
could afford to spend a couple days there seeing the place.

Thank you , JohnH. And it's for certain that very few poor people are
visiting national parks in huge motor homes, such as the ones lining up
for miles around Yellowstone.

In any event, that was just *one* example.

Besides, it's a basic credo of the American principles that our system
encourages people to work & improve their lot in life. If that's not
true, as many of the right-wingers are insisting, then what's wrong with
the picture? Why aren't Bush & Cheney fixing it? Make up your minds, you
can't have it both ways.

DSK

The "American system" does encourage people to work and improve their
lot in life. This is the system that let's a Pakistani immigrate, buy
a clunker, paint it yellow, and start a cab business making $30,000 a
year.

But it's also the system that allows 59% of the babies born in DC to
be born out of wedlock. (Ironically, this rate is exceeded only by the
Virgin Islands, in the TANF data.)

Many of us 'right-wingers' (if it's necessary to call names)
understand that personal responsibility *does* fall both ways - some
folks have it, some don't.

John H

On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD,
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!