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To: TheMole
"BTW, I went to the City Journal site for a look at the latest, and found a second article by Dalrymple that is, seriously, another masterpiece. Check it out. Oh to be in England - The Starving Criminal"

Yes, it is a marvelous article. Incidentally, I once ran a very large residential facility for the serious and persistently mentally ill. I took a whole city block of "shot shacks" and rehabilitated them along with the homeless mentally ill and chemically dependent. I had hoped by having dwelling units of five with the accoutrements of a kitchen and so forth to obtain a resumption of what I called "family living."

Much to my shock, I found most the residents never had any experience with family living, could not cook, could not shop for balanced meals and could not manage money except to purchase drugs and alcohol. It was a demoralizing experience since I hoped to run a dynamically oriented psychotherapeutically excelllent facility but ended up doing "habilitation" on an educational model.

Dalymple is absolutely correct. Note, that his "underclass" studies in UK and France are almost all white, but the underclass here is almost all minority. Notwithstanding these racial differences the population characteristics for the underclass including welfare are exactly the same with only a few exceptions.

56 posted on 10/25/2002 7:58:18 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd
I think the Brit's have always had a problem. re: nutrition. Even during WW2, when they scrapped the bottom of the barrel for service men, they still rejected something like 25%. The leading cause was "not robust", or something to that effect.
144 posted on 11/18/2004 2:05:33 AM PST by investigateworld (( ....Giving free traders the Willies since 2004....))
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