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To: Rambi who wrote (691)	6/11/2005 1:59:56 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 544133

She ran out of food stamps every month and showed up at the Food Closet Mine is of my married to the military days when I carefully shopped on a lieutenant's budget for good values in the commissary and watched the long lines of airmen at the first of the month buying prepared foods and snackfoods, then later in the month an empty store because they had run out of money. I have EARNED them by swimming laps. I watched the fourth quarter of the Spurs game three times today. Does that count?

To: Rambi who wrote (691)	6/11/2005 2:01:18 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544133

Imagine that! <g> And that was a story dating from when, the 1970's? Wonder what the response would be in 2005? That said, it is a free country and the stamps are (were) hers to do with what she wanted, unless we as a nation want to get into micro-managing each individual purchase. I don't think we do - it smacks too much of "Big Brother" and would cost a large fortune we don't have. Do we have to make up for the inevitable shortfall in her budget? No. We did our part. The rest is up to her. Which leads me back to my earlier post: It is undoubtedly true that children go to bed hungry. Not because of any inhumanity on the part of the American people or their government, but because of poor decisions made by their parents. Short of mass removal of children from the otherwise tender loving care of their parents to cavernous sterile government-run institutions, there is genuinely little that can be done.

To: Rambi who wrote (691)	6/12/2005 9:30:14 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 544133

Rambi before I became a teacher I was in social work. One of the dilemmas for us were the housing projects built for low income families. They were beautiful and then they were destroyed by abuses.. It was discussed at the time by those of us in the field. One cannot just build a beautiful complex and place people in them without teaching them HOW to take care of the facility. No urinating in the halls... making the yards a junk heap... It was a conundrum for us... (year..1956 ) I left the field before a conclusion was reached.