Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Not Corporate Taxes, but welfare Message-ID: <1013@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 08:23:58 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.1013 Posted: Mon Oct 1 08:23:58 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 07:38:32 EDT References: <947@trwrba.UUCP> <34900030@convex.UUCP>, <394@genrad.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 10 Let us get History straight. The Virgin Islands (US) have never, I say NEVER belonged to the British. They were purchased from Denmark in 1914. There is NOT a 95% welfare problem. There IS a problem with people coming in from the rest of the area as it is VERY, Very easy to come in. Most of those who have fallen on hard times are not Americans, but folks who have slipped in to try andd make it to the mainland from there. Island nativess, those born there, do not have a welfare problem. You must have talked to someone who is not a native.