| Show Starvation in America is il y f V Very ry Real Due to E. E Government Cutbacks r by Lanny Desino Journalism Are there really starving pe people in America in the The he Reagan people say its it's not true Starvation is IS a social scare tactic enabling g the lazy r people in the country to stay la lazy y and take advantage of th the working class A recent study into starvation in In America has been discounted not ot by professional people who research these surveys but by br many of Rea Reagans Reagan's an s staff and advisory councils Senator Jesse Helms Republican S S. S Carolina st stated d that the starvation panic in America was sociologically originated to aid in In keeping those who abuse the state an and federal programs t that at help th the needy o on those programs and not a productive part o of the American w working class lass With the reports that hunger didn't exist in In any problematic form in In the USA U.S.A. social groups became weary The same statesmen that would not have recognized Martin Luther King KingJr Jr are contending that hunger has been dealt with as well as eliminated Government cutbacks in welfare food stamp programs and many other social programs have also cut back some some som senior citizens' citizens benefits by penalizing the elderly for seeking outside work or by giving them token increases in their benefits disqualifying them from other aid programs These same senior citizens that were once taxpayers for twenty or thirty years are now stuck in a catch 22 situation The starvation in America is very real Retired people in some American city big-city neighborhoods are literally starving to death These retired taxpayers ers are being expected to live on an average of to per month from social security a program they paid tens of thousands of dollars into during Americas America's heyday in industry Many times thi this amount they receive is less than a month Seldom but these people have small increases given to them or obtain a few dollars here and there to help out only to find the increases disqualifies them from a certain amount of other AFter rent utilities and other necessities this doesn't leave much to eat off of Many times in fact underprivileged persons in America are penalized for obtaining small amounts of time part-time work or some other kind of help The choice these people have is simple to perish from hunger or freeze to death ordie or ordie die of exposure Social groups like the ACL ACLU U. U are appalled with Reagan 7 lack of for the in this concern many under-privileged under country no i matter what social or ethnic background they happen to be from The Johnson administration declared War on Poverty in 1967 The Nixon declared Hunger and starvation a solved problem in 1972 And some comprehensive research done by social groups and documented by Loretta Schwartz Nobel Prize Winner have uncovered dreaded diseases thought to be found only in extremely under-developed under nations in Africa and Central Asia that are not only a direct result of malnutrition and starvation but also hereditary In Mound Bayou Mississippi for example one such 0 disease has been found on two occasions This has prompted medical workers in in that rural area to begin research into starvation in America As a result of poor crop management soil erosion due to too much mass planting of the same crop in seasons cutbacks in energy because of ot shortages in in large metropolitan areas social programs to deal with hunger have been severely hampered There is also a problem of educating the American American American Amer Amer- ican ican public about the severity of the problem It is the possibility that possibility that starvation tion exists in America is swept under the rug or ignored The fact is that there are 30 million people in America who live under the po poverty erty level This level is set by the same bunch of officials who say it is a social alarm to benefit the lazy What Helms an and the Reagan aides are telling th the public is is that the thirty million people many of whom will die while this is 4 being reported are a direct product by-product of the rich classes who have benefited by the free market system in America False alse information hiding the facts facts' and ignorance Stance are the real f facing n the tho USA U.S.A. not the u many who are stuck in the situation they cant can't do anything about The government should look again at hunger and starvation and take f n T notice tice Ce of f great great- social unrest Many of the Pe people the government refuses to listen to are the working class that th the White House is afraid will disappear r The question t these ese people have to answer from day to day is whether to pay utilities or eat this month The rhe people who make policy that decides whether the poor will eat a or f not If have to face this Bein Being br broke ke to some means more than whether the trip to the is to be cancelled or not f DATELINE FEBRUARY 1984 F Feb b. b 28 1 AMERICAN HEART MONTH That with Valentines Valentine's Day Feb 14 is reason enough to have a healthy rather than damaged heart Feb 2 GROU GROUNDHOG D DAY Y On this day too in 1876 the National League was formed consisting of eight baseball teams Boston Chicago Cincinnati Hartford Louisville New York Philadelphia and and andSt St. St Louis Feb 12 LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY Born 1809 Feb 14 ST. ST VALENTINES VALENTINE'S DAY Feb 1925 25 BROTHERHOOD WEEK Feb 20 W WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY observed On Feb 21 1885 the Wash ington Monument was dedicated in the nations nation's capital after 37 of years con r Y r Feb 29 29 FIRST LEAP LEAP YEAR in 50 BC B.C. resulted from Julius Caesars Caesar's decree in In 46 BC B.C. that in every fourth February should year have 29 days instead of 28 |
