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>You folks know that they are sending 77 year old Senator John Glenn up >on the space schuttle, do you know why? > >They want to find out how well a glass of prune juice works in zero >gravity! > >No disrespect to Sen Glenn, in fact he might be the only politician that >I have any respect for right now. > >Another thought, can you see Bill Clinton or Richard Nixon teaching a >sunday school class or building homes for poor people.For anyone who >does not know, that is what former president Jimmy Carter is doing now. > >Lanier Maddux What heads of governments and other politician should do is to use their power to see that public education is funded adequately so that the populace can earn a living wage and buy their own houses and not be dependent on charity, which is always demeaning to the both the giver and the recipient.