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Show What's the most important domestic issue in the U.S.? tions to pork barrel situations. I think we got too many people spending They need to have somewhere to go where they can get showered and I ! 'Hi L J money for things that aren't needed. Here in our own city for example with the the Salt Palace situation, I think that we need to consider a lot of things that we don't need. I'm not in favor of the Olympics comine cleaned up and so they can go out and find a job. They need more shelters." Clyde Nelson "I think balancing the budget is the biggest issue because we can not continue to Clyde F. Nelson MarkKasper here, we're spending a lot of money and we don't even know if we're going go-ing to get the Olympics. I think the money should go to the homeless and the needy more than anything else, and that includes a certain amount going to education. I think we're lacking in funds for education." spend more than we take in. Some point in time, why there will be a day of reckoning and I think that's what has got to be done is to have more responsibility in Congress to balance the budget and to reduce unnecessary spending. There are to much pork barrel, or fat that needs to be trimmed from our budget." - - , -. Darlene M. ! Suchla "My j issue is the homeless, I think that's so sad. For America who has so much to have so j many homeless people, I think that's ridiculous in my opinion. I think that's W. James "The main issue is unemployment. In the state of Utah, they have too many taxes and third, more affordable affor-dable housing for minorities. I think that people are way over taxed in Utah and I've liv- W.James Darlene M. Suchla ed in Utah all of my life. With unemployment, there are plenty of jobs around, but people can do better on welfare than they can making minimum wage, so they lose their incentive in-centive to go out and find work. Utah is a low paying state. We need to cut the birth rate down in the state, that's why we got the high taxes and unemployment problems in the first place. ' ' r something that everybody need to focus on. Instead of just providing shelters, maybe they could give them-job them-job naming opportunities; especially for those people who have families, litde children don't belong on the street. Downtown and Salt Lake, I see a lot of transient people, its really sad, they're dirty and they don't look happy. They need to be provided for. |