FOOD STAMPS? EVERYBODY NEEDS THEM

THE DOCTOR IS IN
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LAS VEGAS- Hello America, and how's the world treating you?

A study by Mark Rank of Washington University in St.Louis looked at 30 years of information from the University of Michigan. Rank says that it is misunderstood as to how many people actually struggle with food bills.

Rank says that half of American children will live in households receiving food stamps before they reach 20 years of age. What a sad commentary.

Food stamps are so common that some states like Ohio put them on a card so as not to embarrass the person using them. All the person has to do is swipe the card and they are on their way out of the store. Recovery? Are you kidding!

We are spending over a billion dollars a month on two wars and possibly a third if we keep sending missiles into Pakistan.

The United States is also spending billions on building electric grids, schools and roads both in Iraq and Afghanistan while our infrastructure in the the United State is in a shambles. Only last week another one of our main bridges fell apart in the San Francisco Bay area.

Those billions of dollars being spent in corrupt Iraq and Afghanistan should be used to rebuild schools, electric grids,and roads here in this country. Those billions being shoveled into a money pit in Iraq and Afghanistan could be used here to feed tens of thousands of our own children and adults living in poverty.

Our own children and adults here in the USA should not have to be on food stamps to survive. Currently we have children in the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and other states that are actually running barefoot, without proper clothing to wear and food to eat and if you look to some of the pocket areas in many of our crumbling cities it is not difficult to find children and their parents and even veterans who returned from our wars suffering malnutrition and other maladies just because our country chose to ignore our needs in this country.

We are the greatest nation on the planet and we should not have to have our citizens suffering from lack of food, clothing, health care and a roof over their head.

It appears our nations priorities are misplaced. Our leaders want to spend every dollar they can squeeze out of us but they throw our tax dollars into other countries before they consider building up America first. It appears our politicians want all of us, except themselves, on food stamps.I say, America first, people!-And, that's my opinion.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
bradleykuhns@gmail.com