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To: Constant Reader who wrote (686)	6/11/2005 1:39:48 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 544127

there won't be filet mignon on the table One of my favorite stories...(I hope Dale will forgive me all these personal reminisces...) We had a woman on ADC with four kids. She ran out of food stamps every month and showed up at the Food Closet (which I happened to run at our church so I knew this). Finally a social worker was assigned to her to work on budgeting and meal-planning. The first day they went to the grocery store together, the worker came back to the office just seething. "She bought potato chips and ice cream and steaks!" she cried. "I said to her, what are you DOING! You can't afford steak." And the woman turned on her and hissed, "My children deserve steak. I will not deprive them. They have a right to eat just as well as you do." Which made us all laugh since none of us could afford steak on a social worker's salary. But I do think this is part of the larger problem. Most children are going hungry not because of a lack of resources but because the resources aren't being utilized correctly, or they are abused or wasted. I;m not sure what else we can do. There is huge resistance to change or any perception of "deprivation"- much easier to throw more money at it. Now I am going to go eat my Krispy Kreme donuts- not because I am entitled to them, but because I have EARNED them by swimming laps.