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Re: CHAT: Re : CHAT: conlangs and mental illness

From:Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Friday, May 14, 1999, 18:37
"From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html" wrote:

> Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 14/05/99 01:00:23 , Ed a =E9crit : > > << On the other hand, people with serious mental illnesses in America o=
ften
> cannot get and hold jobs, which means they have no medical insurance, =
which
> means they don't get treated, which means that if they don't have a st=
rong
> support system in the family they end up babbling on streetcorners and=
dying
> of frostbite in January. > > Ed >> > > Come on, Ed. I don't know about much the US welfare system, but I'm sur=
e
> there must be a kind of social care for mentally disabled people like w=
e have
> in EU states.
You're right, there is one. But it's vastly deficient. Anybody who live= s in downtown Austin like me could tell you that: there're plenty of people here who're a little unbalanced. (Most of the bums are at least ostensi= bly not mentally ill, though). =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Tom Wier <artabanos@...> ICQ#: 4315704 AIM: Deuterotom Website: <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/> "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. - Thomas Jefferson =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D