It is time to remember that this is a technical forum.
Lionel B. Dyck <>< Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com Github: https://github.com/lbdyck “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 8:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I want to cry The World Health Organization rates the US health care system 37th in the world. France is rated number 1. The US health care system isn’t even close to being better than most. And those social democratic countries get better health care for half the costs. I’m also all for higher taxes on corporations that currently pay no taxes yet make billions. Even Warren Buffett says taxes on the wealthy should be higher. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, February 6, 2023, 7:45 AM, Allan Staller <00000387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Classification: Confidential Social democratic countries have *MUCH* higher tax rates. Somebody has to pay for all of those services. Social democratic countries have generally poorer medical care Everything has its pros and cons. You pays your money and takes your choice. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I want to cry [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] Social democratic countries have much better quality of lives than America. Very few would like pure capitalism. No social security, medicare, military, police/fire, public schools, etc. Most people would be making very little to benefit the wealthy. Unions fought for the benefits we all now take for granted. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, February 3, 2023, 11:21 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The > inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Under capitalism > man exploits his fellow man. Under socialism it's the other way around. > CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity. -------- Original message --------From: Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> Date: 2/3/23 5:10 PM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I want to cry I don't run in those circles enough. I write in VBA and VBS a lot, but I don't work in a shop where it's common. But I was a COBOL developer for 15 years and I knew coworkers who know COBOL and nothing else.---Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313/* The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -Churchill */-----Original Message-----From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of John McKownSent: Friday, February 3, 2023 17:13Or Visual Basic.--- On Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 12:10 Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote:> It is a little distressing, though (at least to me), to observe how > many "programmers" never ~have~ seen anything but COBOL.>> -----Original Message-----> From: zMan> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:50>> And unless COBOL is the only programming language you've ever seen, it > seems unlikely that you wouldn't know what a variable is.----------------------------------------------------------------------For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ::DISCLAIMER:: ________________________________ The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. 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