Wednesday, November 7, 1984

Forty-six million people are at "risk of hunger".

In 1974, welfare was eighty percent of the meximum necessary to survive. Welfare is seventy-four percent of the mazimum necessary to survive in 1984.

$660,000,000.00 are given in food stamps in Illinois. Food stamps haven't kept up with the cost of living. There has only been a fifteen percent ADC cost of living increase for the last ten years. Only twelve percent of food stamp recipients met government daily minimum requirements of vitamin and mineral intake.

Every county in Illinoid, that responded to a questionaire, replied that a rising need exists for food and housing. What about the boarded up houses?

It took three years before governments of the world relized, knew or cared about the starving masses in Ethiopia, so, I don't see any relief for the underfed masses in the USA.

Why did the Republican Presidential Candidate's wife call the Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate, Mrs. Ferraro, a derogatory name? what type of people are we to applaud and condone cold, mean-spirited, insensitive, apathetic and argumentative remarks.

Why is the Environmental Protection Agency budget being cut in half? Maybe because they want unleaded gas that would raise the price of gasoline, and someone in government is listening.

The water company, ,eter-reader told me I would have to fix and pay for any leak and cost of water lost on my property, but the paved street in front of my house isn't on my property, so why have I received a large water bill for a leak in the paved street in front of my house?