European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes june 1985 columns comments bring Back those welfare bums by Raj Ssell Baker Weinberger Lias reason to Pine for the Days of i Hsc welfare an a a toilet reciting that Homey catalogue of old fashioned american artefacts might tempt a lot of people to lapse into fruity prose poetry of the sort popularized 40 years ago by Thomas a a an unbound an a a toilet i that Secretary of defense Weinberg or would be one of the to 1 sus an ashtray is not just an a Coffeepot not just a a toilet seat not just a toilet to i each is a Monkey wrench tossed into the great War engine of american it cannot be pleasant for him to think in terms of Monkey for though there is As yet no scandalous exposure of a spendthrift Pentagon paying apiece for Monkey never sure now of what excess May be disclosed must be waiting for the next item in our poem to drop an a a toilet a Monkey but distracted by the poetic i wander from the Point of this which has to do with the grave mistake president Reagan made when he de throned the welfare As Long As the welfare Queen was around to take the heal for the High Cost of the Pentagon could pay As much As it liked for coffeepots and toilet nobody much cared As Long As the detestable welfare Queen docs everybody remember the welfare Queen she made regular appearances in reagans speeches in the old driving her Cadillac to pick up her welfare vacationing in drinking Champagne at do i overstate slightly but Only to convey quickly to you the concept of welfare the important Point is that she served a vital political to people out of office As Reagan was when he popularized her she was More valuable than a barn full of county for a lot of politics is a business of placing when a lot of voters believe the government is spend ing their Money improperly that on other the blame for this squandering must be skilfully out of Reagan could blame welfare that was useful in getting Reagan elected but left him in a Pickle because if he went ahead and Cut the Beje Ebers out of government programs for these who were the voters going to have left to blame for the immutable fact that government costs a lot of Money As neither Reagan nor the people who Are said to do most of his thinking thought the problem after All those years of knocking the old welfare the president haunt much and he did what his voters wanted him to How could this be explained after Reagan dealt so firmly with the threadbare classes for awhile it and then would you believe it those bums in the Pentagon have been getting a tril lion dollars that trillion with a t and what have they been doing with it throwing it paying in sane prices for toilet and suddenly Secretary Weinberger sees everything Congress angry and the voters not so eager anymore to spend every last cent for the great War engines of it takes so Little to draw the pub pics rage an a a toilet if you love the Pentagon you must sigh nostalgically for the Days of the welfare c new York times communists win again by Art Buchwald Alabaster was furious As he came in the Kitchen Treyve gone too far he waving the newspaper in his the supreme court wont let my kids Pray in school in sorry to hear i Why dont you let them Pray before they leave Home in the morning they dont have he said with they have to get eat breakfast and do their the first Chance they have to Pray is when they get to their i scanned the the court int taking away the voluntary minute allotted to it just struck Down the words voluntary prayer at the end of Why should we let our kids have a minute of silence just to meditate if they cant use it for prayer then i say forget about maybe that Why the supreme court ruled against its really a question of separation of Church and i believe what the court was saying is that the government cannot Force prayer on children in a Public that int what they were saying at he they arc saying that god can t be in our and the secular humanists have taken Over our and communism has won and that this ruling is just what the soviets have you read All of that into the decision that and a lot Why dont you admit Alabaster you dont want voluntary silent prayer in the you want voluntary spoken with a Strong tilt toward the Church of your that because we know the he religious truth lies in the Church and the the minute you bring it into the classroom All hell Breaks How can you prevent tiny Little kids from asking gods guidance every morning before class be gins Why cant they do it on the Way to class it  Hurt to pause one minute for a they  even have to keep it to a they could Pray As Long As they provided they Are not late for god Doest listen unless they Pray in their school Alabaster Calm the ruling Doest say that the minute allotted cant be used for it just says the state or government cannot specify it be used for that that what we Are Yelling by not specifying what the minute is to be used for it bans prayer in the your problem is that you think every Reli Gion Calls for prayer whilst standing this is not some demand you Kneel and Bow your head others insist you sit straight and there Are some that instruct you to prostrate yourself in a certain once you bring prayer into the schools you must allow those participating to do it their own and As soon As you permit you split up the children into religious factions until the classroom turns into i could Tell Alabaster want the Only Way now to get god into the schools is through a constitutional he hell never get there As Long As an atheistic Bunch of old men sit on the god is in the schools it May not be god according to and it int god according to and it int god according to Ronald but it is and for the Good for the country that the Way it should always you should be burned at the Alabaster i knew he was upset so i didst get in sorry you lost this the Only thing left to do is for your kids to get up 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