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- From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
- Newsgroups: alt.philosophy.objectivism
- Subject: Re: An Observation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.075115.6989@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 07:51:15 GMT
- References: <1jnu48INNmau@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1993Jan22.194209.23083@shearson.com> <1k2fshINNmfk@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- In article <1k2fshINNmfk@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> KAMCHAR@ibm.cl.msu.edu writes:
- }>
- }>Strictly speaking, comparing two cities isn't fair since they aren't
- }>identical.
- }Quite a bit. Here's a few differences:
- }New York (Pre-fifties portions, and Manhatten today) sprawls upward, Houston
- } sprawls outward (a collapsing house kills off five, maybe ten at the most.
- } Collapsing tenaments kill off hundreds, maybe thousands).
- }New York has winters.
-
- There's no statistically significant correlation between homelessness and
- climate that I know of. There is one between rent control, between high
- median housing prices (caused by zoning), and the presence of blacks or
- hispanics in a community. See The Excluded Americans: Homelessness and
- Housing Policies by William Tucker on this.
-
- }Houston is younger than New York.
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- They're both over a century old.
-
- }New York's highways are crowded because of all the people around it; Houston's
- } highways are crowded from intentended neglect.
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- Both are crowded due to high demand and zero tolls.
-
- }>Compare Japan to India.
-
- Actually, the two best case studies are West and East Germany during the
- period in which there was one, and between North and South Korea.
-
- }>You could compare poverty levels before and after the Great Society programs.
- } Vietnam also happened during that time, draining much of the energy of
- }society from constructive activities benefiting the nation towards destructive
- }activities both here and elsewhere. Our nation has yet to recover from it.
-
- 4 times as many Americans die each year in auto accidents than died in the
- entire Vietnam war. Much more money has been spent on domestic aid to the
- poor than on the Vietnam war.
-
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- Tim Starr - Renaissance Now! - Think Universally, Act Selfishly
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