re california insurance commissioner endorses federal legislation to protect consumers from scam insurance companies in article apr cbnewsi cb att com gadfly cbnewsi cb att com gadfly writes in article optilink com cramer optilink com clayton cramer writes and now those other options don t exist we probably agree on this more than you think welfare was invented to solve a problem of the s but the poverty is now so much worse and our economic infra structure has been so eroded that it just can t keep up any more you mean since your philosophy took over the economy has almost collapsed excuse me my philosophy you don t have any idea what my philosophy is the american economy has had its ups and downs through a number of prevailing economic philosophies but then economics is hardly a science in my lifetime your philosophy socialism masquerading as a liberal welfare state has been in ascendancy no i mean exactly what i wrote the welfare system of the new deal is wholly inadequate to cope with the current state of affairs absolutely so the response of socialists is take us even further into socialism whether or not the fathers work is not germane to single mothers very true but the promotion of casual sexuality is something that plays a part in the single mother problem i ll buy that and there s lots of reasons for it extremely far down on the list being the flash in the pan media attention a bunch of middle class dropouts got for their philosophy and experimentation flash in the pan no your subculture has utterly dominated the tv and movie industries for two decades now my subculture my we re getting personal the only subculture i see dominating the tv and movie industries is money if you ll buy it they ll sell it and as recent movements to boycott tv advertisers have shown they re very sensitive about what sells whatever happened to personal responsibility anyway or am i personally responsible for the decline in that too to the extent that people have been encouraged to not be responsible for themselves yes come on you and i both know that the major problem of this society today isn t a lack of employment it s a lack of people willing to work huh tell that to the single mother i know who was laid off from her hour job at a hospital and now works full time minimum wage jobs to barely be able to support herself and her kid barely hey she s too proud to go on public assistance but the only jobs she can find are menial and with no benefits and no career path either they find excuses to lay people off and hire new ones rather than give raises and perks and why not it s a lot cheaper oddly enough all the unskilled or semiskilled people i know manage to find employment almost immediately maybe she needs to move to a cheaper part of the country where jobs are plentiful and the cost of living is lower the west side of chicago is about as cheap as it gets squalor city tell me about all these places where it s cheap to live and jobs are abundant i ll pass them on sonoma county you live in a strange and wondrous place sir inexpensive housing not exactly cheap but not los angeles either lots of employment and utterly surrounded by socialists well i suppose that s the sort of environment that would attract socialists or at least not dissuade them no it s that areas with a lot of wealthy breed socialists all the spoiled rich kids feeling guilty about their wealth but not guilty enough to give it away they just look for politicians to take my more limited wealth away i see a lot of people willing nay eager to work what i don t see is a system that makes it at all feasible to do so it s not just welfare which nobody enjoys but there just aren t the jobs any more when the us was expanding industrial capacity there was always a mill to go work in skills to learn a future now there s only mcdonalds odd not the experience of anyone i know just the opposite in california yup mr cramer i was there hippiedom was a very low budget operation our drugs were cheap the money i was referring to was aid to families with druggie cohabitators afdc well i doubt that much of this goes to drugs there isn t much left after buying food and there is very little in the first place sure you read about such cases now and then but that s what makes them news show me your statistics about afdc abuse i can tell you that relatives i have known the drugs came first the food was secondary ken perlow clayton e cramer uunet pyramid optilink cramer my opinions all mine relations between people to be by mutual consent or not at all
