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...brushes aside the possibility that those the least willing to tolerate poverty are probably the ones who through their energy and motivation are the most able to help their poverty-stricken brethren. Ireland is the classic case where the able and strong abandoned a country, leaving the weak and infirm behind. True, Ireland is better off now than during the potato famines, but to attribute this to migration requires ridiculously long-run analysis. Similarly Galbraith plays down the racial hatred migrants have inspired and the dreadful standard of living--hardly better than what they left--that they are often forced...
...paring-unless and until Congress is prepared to curb the uncontrollables. They seem politically sacrosanct because they are mostly transfer payments that go directly to citizens-for Social Security, Medicare, public assistance, veterans' benefits, civil service and military retirement funds. Nobody wishes to deprive further the aged and infirm, the poor and the ill. Yet the total bill for these benefits is expanding faster than the rate of inflation. Almost all legislators agree that the growth of Government spending should be reduced, but many are unwilling to face the wrath of lobbies for old people, veterans, civil servants...
Instead of emptying out, state hospitals are just as crowded?but with a higher percentage of untreatable patients. Many of these hapless people, in addition to their mental problems, are poor, infirm or alone and without any basic social skills to survive in the outside world. The drive to empty the hospitals may have gone as far as it can go. The readmission rate is up from 25% in 1960 to more than 65% today, which may indicate that too many have been released. As many as half of those discharged are now living alone, without the family support that...
...line that Mao's philosophy was basically correct, but that it was distorted and misapplied by his onetime heir apparent Lin Piao?now the most vilified historical figure in China?and the Gang. Mao's sponsorship of the Cultural Revolution is excused on the grounds that he was aged, infirm and confused...
...been murdered with cyanide injections. Another inquiry witness, Cult Survivor Stanley Clayton, said that many who drank the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid did so only after Jones had pulled them "up from their seats saying they must go." A number of the dead, moreover, were small children or infirm older people who were probably unaware of what they were drinking. There is also a question that no autopsy can answer: Should those who swallowed the poison without resistance, out of a deluded devotion to a mad messiah, properly be classified as suicides...