Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!amd!amdcad!linda From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Extent of hunger in America Message-ID: <5669@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 21:46:40 EST Article-I.D.: amdcad.5669 Posted: Fri Nov 1 21:46:40 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 07:34:15 EST References: <215@gargoyle.UUCP> <7800561@inmet.UUCP> Organization: AMDCAD, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 22 Summary: "Last Nickel" theory Why do people feel that people have to be down to their last nickel, in desparate, destitute condition, before anyone should help them? We should be helping people long before it gets to that state. I don't want starving people to have to trek across continents just to find a menial job. I want to see a person receive help while the person still has an apartment, a little bit of money left, and a serious potential problem. I personally don't mind my tax money going for foodstamps to someone who was a little bit of money, but who could use a little bit more food. In Berkeley, you can buy food and put it in a basket for a big project that brings food to hungry people. In other communities where I have lived I had never before seen a place wheere middle class people can easily donate food to hungry people. I'm sure that there are many college students from disadvantaged backgrounds who don't have enough to eat. There doesn't seem to be any social force or organization to get preppie students to donate some money to them. Why not have our society help people who are going to do well with a little bit of help, rather than wait for people to become down and out. Linda Seltzer