Re: walter, don't you think it's time we talked?

Why not back to Africa, from whence they came?

OK, I'll say it........
It's time to license people to have children, for two reasons:
1/     The world is not underpopulated.
2/    The abysmal level of care shown to children by many parents.

In the good old days 'marriage' was such a license because of the three
things necessary for the raising of children, vis:

1/    Money,
2/    More money,
3/    Still more money.

Every hardworking taxpayer has a right to demand his money is spent
efficiently, and also...
Marriage is a business - not a love-fest.




"Cereoid-UR12-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Maybe we should send them all to Australia?
>
> They should feel at home there.
>
> BTW, its not that "One out of four African-Americans between about 15 and
45
> is involved with the criminal justice system", its that number of
> African-American males of that age have a criminal record involving
violent
> crime and have made themselves unhirable for life because they mistakenly
> thought it would be cool to be "gangastas". Who's fault is that?
>
>
> Iris Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > << All he needs is a pair of rose-colored glasses. >>
> >
> > I don't know about Australia, but the problems he mentioned are
extremely
> > serious in this country. One out of four African-Americans between about
> 15 and
> > 45 is involved with the criminal justice system. Bush's much-touted No
> Child
> > Left Behind law is only half funded.
> > About 30 years ago there was a tremendous push to get mental patients
out
> of
> > the large state hospitals and back into the community. The only trouble
> was
> > that nowhere near enough money or authority was put into seeing that the
> > patients received adequate care and supervision. The result is that our
> > homeless shelters and prisons are full of mentally ill people who are
not
> > receiving proper care.
> > What has that to do with botany or AHTA? I will never forget 20 years
ago
> when
> > I was involved in a prison literacy program, I worked with some young
men
> who
> > were learning disabled, most of them from the slums. One day I brought
in
> some
> > spring flowers, and labeled them in English and Spanish. One of the men,
> about
> > 21, told me he had NEVER BEFORE SEEN A REAL FLOWER. Some of the state
> prison
> > systems, notably in Florida, have had some very successful horticulture
> > programs.
> > Iris,
> > Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
> > "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the
oncoming
> > train."
> > Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
>
>