Tuesday, May 8, 1984

A typical workday. I went to the grocery store after work and spent $23.00 for one-half bag of groceries.

We have the highest trade deficit ever. The United States is $25,8000,000,000.00 in the red for the first three months of this year.

The biggest class action lawsuit in history was settled today, with the biggest awarded settlement in history to go to Vietnam Veterans, both the United States and New Zealand troops. The award came from seven chemical companies, who invented Agent Orange, better know as Dioxin. It was used as a defoliate to strip the leaves from plants. It was sprayed in Vietnam, not only on trees and plants, but over our and other countries men, who were fighting our war. There wasn't any regard to the effects that it would have on those men, their children or their children's children. The money, $180,000,000.00, was set up in a trust fund, earning an additional $68,000.00 per day. It will be used for genetic counseling to prevent birth defective children of the servicemen, liver damage, cancers and skin rashes of the servicemen, that Dioxin causes.