From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 9 21:21:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA01464 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 21:21:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA01458; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 21:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA18956; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 00:22:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA26981; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 00:22:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 00:22:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca Reply-To: hoek@hwcn.org To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: Wes Peters , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations In-Reply-To: <199708100333.UAA29645@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > possible incindiary material..... ;) hehe... :-) > i am here in the usa....and it does concern me. > the social changes in decently educated people will make > it harder to create the citizentry of hte next generation. > not impossible, but harder....could lead to greater social > balkanization...gated communities, decline of public > schools and opt-out by those that can afford to do so I suspect gated communities specifically are just a fad, but what makes them seem appealing is not. The increased "us" and "them" separation is nothing but trouble. :-( > leaving an impoverished public life. (less funding for > public libraries, schools, redirection of public funds > to private or religious schools....these will not > benefit the country as a whole.) Hmm... I'm not sure how it works in the US, but in this particular province here, those going to a private or religious school find themselves paying twice, once for the public system, and then again for themselves. Would a change to the tax system so that those going to a separate system pay only the difference twice seem reasonable to you? (ie. if one normally had to pay 7$ to the public system, but one currently had children privately educated, paying 10$, one would pay only the difference, 3$, to the public system). Incidentally, if you say "No, this is not reasonable; people going to a private school have tons of money to spare, anyways", I will be tempted to yell at you very loudly. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk