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...rebuilding of postwar Germany into one of the world's most affluent nations," Dersh writes, "is a moral disgrace. A minimal appropriate response...should have been a generation of poverty." Dershowitz even fondly recalls Henry Morganthau's proposal to partition and deindustrialize Germany and turn it into a pauper nation...
...area in which the free market cannot provide either the universal availability that decency demands or the cost control that sanity requires. That's why even the conservative Heritage Foundation -- in an intriguing reform proposal billed as "market oriented" -- endorses a thinly disguised tax increase on the affluent, massive new government handouts to lower-income families and stiff new regulations on everyone...
Another result of the decision could be the further exaggeration of a two- tiered health-care system: one that provides affluent women with the full range of options and offers poor women either skewed information or a range of services severely constrained by funding limitations. "A double standard of medical care is now not only legal," argues Sanger, "but mandatory in this country." Wattleton asserts that the congressional intent behind Title X was to "help needy women, not victimize them by subjecting them to second-class health care...
Halverson said the flaw in this reasoning is that it assumes property taxpayers should only pay according to the city services they use--which would prevent transfer of wealth from more affluent property owners to needy individuals in poorer neighborhoods...
...last year, the largest annual drop since 1981. The decline in infant mortality was 6%, in contrast to an average 2.5% annual decline in the 1980s. But the U.S. still trails 19 other nations, including some, like Singapore and Spain, that are less affluent. More troubling still, the death rate for black infants, 17.6 per 1,000, was more than double that for white babies, 8.5 per 1,000. "We have a good deal to be proud of," said HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan. "But much work has yet to be done...