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Subject: The Christmas Spirit in Texas
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Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 17:44:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 12 17:44:42 1983
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News item from Chicago Sun-times, Dec. 10, 1983.

"When Ann Martin of Houston told the Houston Post how she was struggling
to support a teenage daughter and a 10-year-old son stricken with a fatal
brain disease on $550 a month in government aid, sympathetic Houston
residents sent her money to help out. But when she reported the donations
to her caseworker, Martin was told that she would not get her January
welfare check and that her food stamps were going to be cut. Furthermore,
Martin has been told that she cannot return the checks to Post readers.
Elizabeth Quiroz of the Texas Human Resources Department said if Martin
deliberately shunned income, her welfare and food stamps could be terminated."

I'm glad to see that people in Texas really know how to handle their
Welfare Queens. Up here in Chicago, the Liberal Do-Gooders actually
take up collections for these Welfare Ripoffs! They actually buy presents
for needy children, and make up food baskets! It gets especially bad
up here at Christmas, what with people standing on street corners 
extorting money from passers-by so that they can run soup kitchens
for the So-Called Hungry ( There are no hungry people! Edwin Meese, the
senior advisor to President Reagan, told us so! ). I bet you Texans
don't have to put up with all those charities and their begging.

I think that Ms. Quiroz should launch a full-scale investigation into
this blatant attempt to rip off Texas taxpayers! Why isn't the teen-age
daughter out working? She's probably in school getting her head filled
with Commie-Symp Propaganda! And why do you Texans have to support
the son anyway? If you just let him starve to death, you would have
more tax money left to spend on important things, like National Defense
of the American Way of Life. 

Do you Texans realize that if you cut them off welfare for a whole year
that you could save $6,600? Why, thats enough money to buy some really
important Defense Material, like a set of rubber tips for the Navigator's
chair in a B-52!

		Phil Polli
		ihuxl!pvp

P.S. From what I have been reading lately on the net, I know that 
several of you probably are cheering me on. Please don't send mail
to me telling me how right I am, I'm depressed enough as it is.