[ExI] Class Differences Among Black People

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "J. Andrew Rogers" <andrew at ceruleansystems.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:59 PM

> On May 29, 2007, at 10:20 PM, Olga Bourlin wrote:
>> Economic damage trumps emotional and physical damage?

> Silly, you pretend like these things are unrelated or that you can
> manipulate them at will independently.  This is way up there on the
> list of defective ideas that have caused untold quantities of pain,
> suffering, and death in history.  It is a pity this misguided notion
> is so popular.  The road to hell is paved with good intentions and
> all that.

I did mention other countries have figured out what to do.  While those 
health plans may not be perfect, they're better and more equitable than what 
we have - and have had - in this country.

I've had friends who lived under the Italian health-care system for many 
years, and there are friends who still do.  The get medical health care 
whenever they've needed it - they live longer than Americans do - what's not 
to like?  An acquaintance of another friend of mine who recently moved to 
Costa Rica buys into their national health care plan for $400 per year.

Many Americans have been weaned on Cold War publications (e.g., Time 
magazine, which is still going strong in that vein).  The agenda of those 
publications was to demonize the perceived evil of socialism and communism. 
As a result, to this day many Americans are conditioned to take out and wave 
their garlic bags around anything that resembles socialism - even if it 
would benefit the citizens of their country, even if it would benefit 
*them*.

Therefore, you may justifiably put me into the category of:  "I don't get 
it."  (I may be thick - but none of this makes any sense to me.)

Olga