Homestead mailing list

[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

What numbers are wrong, specifically?


------------------------------------------------------------------------


--- On Sun, 11/9/08, Rob <becida AT comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Rob <becida AT comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Half of U.S. "on the dole"
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 10:38 AM
> At  11/9/2008 09:18 AM,Don  Bowen wrote:
> >This is mostly a miss reading.  Maybe over half of the
> population is taking
> >government checks but look at the distribution of that
> half.  You have not
> >just welfare recipients but military, local police and
> fire, government
> >employees, etc.
> >
> >Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> 
> Just spin, lot's of that going on these days. Much
> better bad numbers 
> when you include the cop down the street and the fireman as
> "on the dole". These days maybe you should
> include half of the Wall 
> Street bankers?
> 
> It's really hard to have a useful discussion on
> anything when you 
> start out with distorted numbers, that is a sign of the
> times for our 
> society these days.
> 
> 
> 
> Rob
> becida AT comcast.net 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Homestead list and subscription:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/homestead
> Change your homestead list member options:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/homestead/bobford79%40yahoo.com
> View the archives at:
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/homestead