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Julie Bove[_2_]

"Pete C." > wrote in message
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> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:15:34 -0500, "Pete C." >
>> wrote:
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>> >
>> >Janet wrote:
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>> >> In article >,
>> >> says...
>> >> >
>> >> > Janet wrote:
>> >> > >
>> >> > > In article >,
>> >> > >
>> >> > > says...
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > On Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:52:22 -0500, Mark Storkamp
>> >> > > > > wrote:
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > > Why is birth control free with no co-pay or deductible?
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > It is?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > It is in the UK. 15 contraceptive methods all available free
>> >> > > from the
>> >> > > NHS, education and confidential advice services everywhere.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Janet UK
>> >> >
>> >> > Unfortunately that leaves the native population declining
>> >>
>> >> What "natives" would they be? Britain is and always has been, a
>> >> nation
>> >> of enterprising immigrants.
>> >>
>> >> while the
>> >> > dregs of the third world you let in breed like cockroaches.
>> >>
>> >> When Britain's empire owned a third of the world we used to export
>> >> the dregs to America, and look how they turned out.
>> >>
>> >> Janet UK
>> >
>> >Keep laughing, I've been to the UK, I've seen the Cairo-esque slums
>> >you've got there. The US is far, far better off than your imploded
>> >empire.
>>
>> Wow and you don't see the similarities in the USA right now ??
>
> With the exception of a couple very small areas in the US, absolutely
> not. Those who try to claim there are, or that there is huge poverty, or
> tons of racism or "gun crime" have not the slightest clue what they are
> talking about. Only those who both live in the US and have traveled it
> extensively have a real concept of what the US is actually like. The
> reality is the US is both huge and diverse and the 50 US states +
> territories are more properly compared to the whole of Europe and all
> the different countries there since each US state is decidedly different
> from the rest.

Agree. While we do have a big problem now in this country with a lack of
living wage jobs, that doesn't mean that our housing has deteriorated. I
know of people who have had to move back in with their parents, or with
friends or even someone else who had a spare room to rent. But it's in no
way like the days of the past where anyone who had a spare room to rent was
renting it out just to put food on the table. And there for sure is no lack
of housing in this area. Just perhaps a lack of low income housing.

I'm 55 now and in all my life I have only ever seen one area that I could
call a slum. That was in Washington DC. I did see a high crime looking and
rundown area in Philadelphia but it was in no way as bad as Washington DC
was. I am well aware of the problems in Detroit though.

However... It does seem that in this country, we don't allow things to stay
bad like that. The citizens eventually band together and try to clean
things up. From what I have heard/read, NY used to be a pretty bad place.
It didn't seem so when I lived there however... It wasn't the type of
living that appealed to me. I did not however feel unsafe there.