Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bbnccv!inmet!janw From: janw@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Extent of hunger in America: Dec Message-ID: <7800658@inmet.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 11:21:00 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.7800658 Posted: Tue Nov 5 11:21:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 21:20:38 EST References: <343@whuts.UUCP> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:whuts:-34300:inmet:7800658:000:628 Nf-From: inmet!janw Nov 5 11:21:00 1985 [Linda Seltzer linda@amdcad]] > 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 couldn't agree more. But all problems cannot be solved with food baskets. A full stomach does not prevent one from being poor in this country. Poverty in USA means being trapped in a subculture. The two worst problems of the poor here are clearly crime and ignorance. If you want to help the poor, show them a way *out*, instead of just shoving Christmas pies *in*. Jan Wasilewsky