<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">How does the decision to be an intellectual, or anything else for that matter, hinge upon how many shoddy intellectuals there are? How does caring about the state of other human beings make you a "bleeding heart, a feel good"?<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- s</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 27, 2005, at 7:57 PM, Al Brooks wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>What bothers even a slightly squishy liberal like me is seeing today's report by Yahoo News that immigrants (report didn't specify whether illegal or not) consume hundreds of dollars less per month medical costs than native-born, then going on to report even more 'astonishingly' or 'startlingy' how the poorest of immigrant children use 84% less medical resources than natives.</DIV> <DIV>The researcher opines this is a "grave disparity".</DIV> <DIV> I want to be a good liberal, a bleeding heart, a feel-good. But with bias like this being an intellectual is sometimes dubious. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR size="1"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=34442/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs">Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page </A><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat</A></DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>