[PRCo] Re: Gas Prices

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

> ----- Original Message ----

> From: John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
> 
> 
> My wife went on a mission trip to Novosibirsk several
> years ago, and at a get-together showed a picture of our 
> house.  The 'locals' wanted to know on which floor was
> our apartment located.   She felt embarrassed telling them
> that we lived in the entire house.  And our 
> square footage is smaller then the average.

When living in San Francisco in the 1980s I attended a
church which had a big missionary project to Russia
as well as Russian immigrants here.  Mention a trip
to the super market and they begged to go along.  They
were constantly astonished at the variety we have here.

The battle cry of protesters coming out of the hippy era
was 'food for people not for profit.'  Remove the profit
incentive and there goes our variety doesn't it.  That's why
I give pause to 'socialized' medicine.  As I mentioned before
we seem to have much better health care in some respects
than Britain.  But 'if' we go socialized method I shall
probably be pushing up the daisies by then.


Phil