Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site loral.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!rfs From: rfs@loral.UUCP () Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: How about helping our own Message-ID: <710@loral.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 14:33:54 EST Article-I.D.: loral.710 Posted: Wed Dec 12 14:33:54 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:49:05 EST Lines: 28 I feel real bad about the starving people in Ethiopia. What about the starving people in the USA. I mean the street people and the bag ladies. The winos that sleep in gutters and under bridges. Don't you think we should help our own first. How about the farmers that are going bankrupt at a record rate and have to ask for food stamps just to feed their children. Lets face the fact and wake up and smell the coffee. This is one screwed up country. We'll break our asses to help others with billions of dollars and turn our back on our own people. Cliff Roberts and Charalton Heston seem to be the media spokesmen for the relief effort in Ethiopia. I'm sure each of them have cut big fat checks for the relief effort. Have each of them given a 'dime' to any needy people in their own country. I doubt it!. You see its politically fashonable to contribute to the starving people in Ethiopia. Hey!, I have a great idea. Fifty cents out of every dollar for the relief effort should be distributed to the farmers about ready to go bankrupt and the street people in all cities of this country. Now you say well thats welfare. No matter who we give relief to its still welfare. By the way the farmers being proud people that they are will pay it back some day. Just before you give away a check to the Ethiopia relief drive find out if there are any charity organizations for our street people or farmers relief funds. I say when every person in america is fat and healthy and we don't know what else to do with our money then send it over seas. LETS QUIT SHIT'NT ON OUR OWN PEOPLE for the sake of others!