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- From: kamchar@ibm.cl.msu.edu
- Newsgroups: soc.men
- Subject: Re: War on Fathers
- Keywords: reproductive freedom; ERA; Barbara Ehrhenreich; The Hearts of Men
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.224658.15397@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:46:58 GMT
- References: <BxKK4F.G6n@cs.psu.edu>
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- In article <BxKK4F.G6n@cs.psu.edu> beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- writes:
- > In article <1992Nov11.093232.10847@walter.cray.com> jsw@cray.com writes:
- [...]
- > Interesting -- so when we impose Draconian child support measures,
- > we force the neediest mothers into deeper poverty (poor fathers can't
- > pay) and simultaneously provide the middle-upper class mothers
- > with greater wealth (rich fathers can't run).
- >
- > At the same time, we can report greater total dollar amounts
- > of child support being paid.
- >
- > And better: wealthy, white, educated, voting mothers can provide
- > a stronger mandate.
- >
- >
- > Sounds like trickle-down economics (and its supporters) to me.
- >
- > Is anyone sure Bill and Hillary aren't Republicans?
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- > Don
- > --
- > beaver@cs.psu.edu Opinions from the PC-challenged
- Like I've said, the Anti-Feminist Right hates men more than a feminist
- ever could. Someone interviewed in Barbara Ehrhenreich's _The Hearts of
- Men_ said that men who refuse their duty to get married and support a
- women should be taxed or garnished and the money redistributed to women
- through a national fund. When Ehrhenreich pointed put that this is the
- kind of radical income redistribution usually found after a revolution
- "she looked a bit puzzled".
-
- I used to support the ERA and reproductive freedom out of niceness, now I
- do it out of self defence.
-
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- "There is only one cause of poverty in the modern world: failure to
- own an adequate supply of capital"
- --Louis Kelso
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