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To get re-elected, Ronald Reagan Read's recent Interest In the plain
raiht have to change public per? fact that many Americans do not get
ceptions of his policies on hunger. He adequate nutrition, given everything
already has done the same thing with
the education issue.
Although the Reagan administra
tion has greatly reduced federal
involvement in and funding of
America education, he has seemingly
aelused the possible backlash of his
he has said and done in the cast.
emerges as a cynical and largely empty
effort to jerk the knees of voters, 1
Particularly revealing is Reagan's
dawdling with federal food giveaways.
Federal warehouses are bloated with
excess flour, rice, powdered milk and
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actions by talking up merit pay raises the famous surplus cheese. Despite the
cheese giveaway, the federal ,daily
surplus alone is worth more than $2
billion. .'
And yet Reagan's administration
sharply reduced cheese distribution
throughout the country last May. Hiis
wa3 done for two reasons. As in every
government program, there were
accusations of waste and abuse. Sen.
Jesse Helms of North Carolina
invented what you xnisht call the wel
fare grandmother, telling of elderly
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for teachers. Even though his only
involvement in education until he
discovered the "Master Teacher" issue
was essentially a negative one he
wanted to abolish the U.S. Department recipients who drove around the state
collecting free cheese in Cadillacs! A
fresh salad or our famous
creamy cole slaw, hush
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your choice of potato, rice
pilaf or our vegetable of
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And if that doesn't whet
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of Education itself many people
outside the teachers' unions are taken
in by the hot air on education that he
has been blowing from Washington.
The first attempt to repaint the
picture that people have in their
minds of government food policies
generally an accurate one of Reagan
slashing every nutrition relief program
that he can was Agriculture
Helms aide was glad to announce that
North Carolina has restricted
eligibility for the cheese.
' An even more cogent reason for the
change, came from the cheese
manufacturers: it was hurtingtheir
'sales. Although some analysts said
that it was the recession, not the
. federal cheese giveaways, which was
Secretary John Block week of eating lowering cheese sales, the Reagan
on a food stamp bud,
I'm here to demonstrate that you
can live within the plan and have a
satisfactory diet, Block declared. He
and his wife shopped on the maximum
amount that the food stamp program
will give to feed a family of four $58 a
week. v ' ,
Soon alter this, Reagan himself set
up a Task Force on Food Assistance, in
apparent surprise that there are
administration reduced its cheese
distribution to oblige the cheese
makers.
By damming up the great federal
river of cheese last May, Reagan surely
showed his priorities., Whatever
abuses might have occurred in the
giveaway program, they are certainly
minor compared to those which have
been discovered elsewhere in
military spare parts replacement, for
hungry people in the United States, example. And it is shocking that an
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For a little more than a fin.
even witn a rooa stamp program
which Block had supposedly proven to
be adequate and even generous.
The real harm that the Reagan"
administration has done to nutrition
in America b great Child nutrition
programs have been reduced $1.5 bil
lion; food stamp prepress have been
cut by $1.7 billion. This means three
million school children have been
dropped from the school lunch
program and 800,000 people arent
getting food stamps any longer. But
this isnt alL Reagan favors making
more cuts in the 1C3 i budget, front a
program for pregnant women, infants
and children, and from food stamp
benefits to disabled and else:
administration will pile up food rather
than give it to people who need it,
possibly lowering the profits of the
food industry. .
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