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From: rfs@loral.UUCP ()
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: How about helping our own
Message-ID: <709@loral.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 14:31:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 14:31:59 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:48:52 EST
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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!