Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 23, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 pshaw 1qqc May children hungry ask the parents the article by Frances Russell tories ignore suffer ing of free april 27 deserves a As Russell blames the government for not providing More Money for various let us look at the first of the term child poverty is somewhat since there Are no poor or Rich Only poor or Rich in All unemployed people Are entitled to a mini mum either in the form of unemployment insurance or Wel fare so Why Are children turning up at soup kitchens in in creasing numbers i am afraid that this question should be directed to their parents rather than to the gov As suggested by rus i have experienced hunger Dur ing the last War and also worked for a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour shortly after arriving in i also know that while it is hard to manage on one does not have to be since there is plenty of cheap healthy food Avail i personally knew welfare recipients who did manage living on Wel it appears that what we have Here is largely a social rather than an economic or a problem of misplaced Frances Russell should try to find out How much Money is being spent on alcohol and tobacco by Wel fare she May get the sur prise of her life Winnipeg the problem from within the Public knows that democracy is the worst form of government except for All the other forms that have been this historical jewel of living together has to be even from problems consider for a moment the fact that in 1991 there were canadians living in including one million this huge num Ber occurs despite our minimum wage the unemployment insurance and the surging Wel fare the min depression and the Bot Tomline policies of business and government have inured the Public to accept As Normal the existence of this terrible loss of human and for the four million poor people the advantages of living in a democracy Are greatly the Public also knows that Educa Tion is one of the main ways of breaking this Iron Circle of it does not that 19 per cent of All poor households were headed by people who had less than eight years of nor that 50 per cent of single Parent households had not finished High school dropout rates Are 18 per cent in Canada 19 per cent in Mani Toba and 50 per cent of them regret Ted leaving school dropouts experienced failure in elementary 18 per cent drank 12 per cent committed criminal of and 51 per cent had an in come of a year and yet worked 50 hours per these facts Are contained in the National Council of welfare poverty profile published in the Spring of this threat from within is a Chal Lenge to the desirability of living in a it is so wasteful of the human spirit and Talent that any government would do Well to Issue a University tuition fee voucher for All children living in even though the Odds get there Are it is an incentive to Winnipeg University funds drop during the past Federal Cash transfers to the provinces for pos secondary education have been the Federal govern ment is considering the total elimination of Cash transfers to the prov inces for pos secondary education in favor of an expanded system of student if these measures Are simple tuition rates will Rise along with the amount of Money students will need to borrow in order to get an already facing a Job Market in which entry level positions Are overflowing with More experienced older will have a much harder time repaying these i believe we must pro test these cuts because they Are both unnecessary and place an unfair Burden on the government is arguing that it needs to Cut social spending in order to reduce the Federal How to the editor the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x letters can be sent to our fax number letters May be submitted through the item eat . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone according to information in a 1991 statistics Canada half of the deficits occurring Between 1975 and 1991 were the result of tax Breaks which chiefly benefited corporations and the another 44 per cent occurred because of High interest Only six per cent of the deficits could be attributed to government instead of making pos secondary education an impossible luxury for Canadian the government should consider alternative ways to reduce our for tax loopholes such As fast write offs of capital costs and capital gains exemptions could be tightened or and since High interest rates contribute to the ballooning of the Federal the government could use its influence with the Bank of Canada to have Short term interest rates the government must make Edu cation affordable and accessible to recommit itself to Job Cre and create an Economy that will Benefit All not just the Marlen Beaty Winnipeg suggestions for helping Street kids its interesting what society views As in tabloid the free press ran a Story and Pho tos of an arrogant Pimp making a Liv ing on the backs of underprivileged Young on the same front Page was a picture of the mayor demonstrating on behalf of the Why not a photo of the mayor de manding funds be appropriated for shelter and training for Street Chil Dren maybe a tag Day should be initiated called parents against pimps maybe All the churches in Manitoba should set aside one Sun Day offering per month and donate the proceeds to a Home for these Young people so their families wont sign Over guardianship to this Type of we the concerned citizens of the world can make a if we want Barbar Sabanski Pinawa slap in the face for business the Federal in its Zeal to save us tax has once again dealt business a slap in the with the introduction of the Many of our Cash registers were of so we had to Purchase new this was a Boon to the Cash Register but did Hurt the Bottom line for almost All now we have some civil servant who has come up with the brain wave that we Are using too Many Bills with the introduction of the any sem intelligent person could have figured out that with the introduction of a instead of the the use of Bills would increase the solution of introducing a new Coin now makes All existing Cash drawers since the United states has no plans for this Type of a new Cash drawer mar Ket will be Small numbers mean High manufacturing so the Canadian retailer will be forced to pay through the nose just to be Able to do business in i see also that we will be altering the metallurgy of our other Coin de this will mean the alteration of All vending machine mechanisms to accept both the new and old once business will incur a huge this Means lost prof investment and jobs the person or persons responsible for these decisions should be Rick Henderson i Shoal Lake in armoured vehicles escort streetcars Down the infamous sniper Alley in free press file photo the games nearly Over the serbs Are winning by Jonathan Power special to the free press Londo this is the fifth season in the Balkan Premier the score is serbs croats muslims All terminology to follow Given in european soccer although certain provocative terms used by a Small group of supposedly astute such As level playing Field and level killing probably need explanation to readers who prefer baseball to mayhem so where is this deadly game heading in the late Spring of 1995 the although Are still threatening mayhem at the Onset of each new the ambulance men continue to do their duty but the piqued by the hostility of the players and riled by the catcalls from the is talking of pulling the Are Drifting some even demanding their Money Back unless there is some Bolt from Brussels to set the adrenalin some Distant friends have talked so far it is Only sending the Muslim team new but even if they got the Ball is already within the danger zone of the and new boots Arent what this game is its about the High ground versus the Low its about having better trained its about the serbs having that deadly glint in the Eye that the game is already won and it just needs one More one More one More feint to the left to but doonesbury be enthral the enough of lets get Back to what can anyone do to help Bosnia now Warren Washington former ambassador to in one desperate is saying at least lets save a City until this stupid was one of the worlds most in daringly successful cosmopolitan bring in the nato War he and take the serb big guns off the surrounding As if this option Long ago haunt exhaustively been held up to the Light a Hundred times and found to be not one of its propagandists has found a satisfactory riposte to those who say that if this is the guns will be turned with a vengeance on the United nations and then the one thing that no one disputes As a great achievement will come to a Quick provision of Relief so Well crafted that it has provided a better state of nutrition to the mainly people than they had before the mistake lets even at this bitter a sense of proportion about what in peacekeepers can they cannot Stop a civil War they do not have the Mere and even if they had they would quickly come to be seen As rather than Secretary of state Cyrus Vance and his european Community lord made a mistake in mid1991 in not recommending to the in that peacekeeping troops be Karadzic going for broke introduced before the fighting spread to maybe that was an Opportunity but it cannot be repaired by resort to a massive assault from the air that would raise the military stakes in a contest that nato could never resolve in its favor except by an invasion of land forces numbering Well beyond the Quarter of a million that were deployed against Saddam of an air strike could Stop the War for a a even a year if it was but the lesson of this War is that every every truce so is merely a time to redeploy and prepare for a new the serbs will not As Zimmermann Well until Treyve conquered that is Why the new in War crimes tribunal has rightly named Radovan Karadzic As a suspected War he will Stop at nothing in Pursuit of his it is just a very great pity he want fingered when he first got then it might have Given him now his blood is up and he has nothing to lose and everything to he will go for and Only an assassins Bullet could Stop the bosnian War is nearly the serbs Are going to get what they the muslims will end up with whatever Small kingdom the serbs leave for rather less than the 51 per cent the Contact group tried to negotiate on their the in must even in there Are two even if France and Russia pull their troops Pakistan and the other Muslim contributors will keep theirs and on their own they will end up siding with the which will do no one any and then there is Macedonia and dont think the serbs Are finished when Treyve captured a Lousy end to a dreadful All we can Hope is that next the International Community will act never before got deep into such a with so Many sides and with such ruthless referees must learn to arrive before the Ball starts spectators should always carry and the a wed forgotten the what can one say As we got it by Garry Trudeau you i won mostly he hapa Noth doonesbury by Garry Trudeau to so Coufall i wring Mah thanks prop ifia5kyou ;