European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes August 1985 m i response to recent criticism of Usa for Africa in responding to the recent criticisms of Usa for Africa and the live Aid con Cert in helping other countries whose governments could not take care of their own it sounded As if music artists were hypocrites who Arent thinking of their own country and want the publicity for their own i can almost assure you this is not the 1 feel As badly As you for the starving in our country but we do have programs that help most of although it 11 never be those in the underdeveloped countries Arent As Are they to blame for living in a wasteland not properly taken care of by their own government i dont wish to review our history but America is part of this world we Are a melting pot of the different Why should we just take care of our i recently saw a report on poor american children who raised funds for the although they themselves didst have that they we rent concerned As to what countries were receiving the Only that they were giving other people a Chance at As for the needy not Ever receiving any Relief at that is just a cop out for not help ing and supporting the when the Brit ish organization band Aid had a sufficient amount of Bob the organizer of band flew to Ethiopia to ensure that the Money was being put to proper the same for Usa for you seem to think they Are dumb enough to present a fat Check to a communist dont underestimate the intelligence of these people for they know As much As we do about existing world Condi Why put Down Bob Geldof dream of uniting to help As Many people in need As possible Hes not from the United states out from Ireland where things Are just As bad As they Are All and about the importance of the presidents medical condition and the live Aid concert i think we had equal cover the president is doing Fine but the people in Ethiopia Are still America is taking care of its we arc part of the human race and therefore should not be condemned for helping the my name is being withheld because i believe 1 am speaking for other Loyal americans who Are part of this world and believe in helping people in need no matter who they withheld Germany what is the problem i open my copy of stars and stripes to find letters stating How upset they Are because Usa for Afri Ca is helping starving people in another Why must we Divide the world Why cant we All just work together and help each other Call me ant american if you but i dont think of it that its time we Stop categorizing the people of this planet by to that a form of like the song says we Are the its about time we come together As dont you think Scott Furtado Germany first of who Are they that the letter is talking about the Only they i know of Are a few artists who decided that they we rent going to let politics deter them from doing what they Felt was and apparently millions of people Felt the same they May be a communist bloc nation do you believe that a starving child knows that he or she is communist As for headlines in the sure it was a major operation for the but he want in danger of starving to i think a humanitarian act done for thousands of hungry and dying people should be a the Point even though president Reagan is our com mandarin chief he is Only one Man our government has been in someone else backyard for Why Stop now if were going to take care of our own we should have done it before you say we May be helping our enemies build weapons and a defense against we have Good americans who will Tell our secrets to our enemies for a lot less than it would Cost them to find out by the some of the proceeds from the Usa for Africa album goes to clothe and House destitute withheld Germany these programs to the Best of my pro managed and financed solely through private the people involved did not do this free of they did it at their own the Money raised is not just to feed starving people but to help them become these efforts should not be overshadowed by they should be an inspiration to All of us to do More for the less people say take care of our own first and i totally so Long As we dont take from others in doing we do have hunger in the United states but we dont have and even if we would we want to undo the efforts of caring people for our own Sake i truly believe there is no comparison you can use be tween the two Ethiopia is arid and Barren we Are Green and they Are not developed in Medicine or agriculture we Are the worlds Leader in these their Only surplus is National starvation we have so much surplus that to waste food and Energy has almost become a National instead of knocking someone else for doing something Good instead of crying poor instead of saying take care of America Praise them for their without thank it int thank god that i live in a country that is truly and Start taking care of America first through Posi Tive let what is positive be positive and use it for the betterment of All gods Chil George Brown Ramstein Germany when someone compares a starving child in Africa with the homeless and starving in they try to compare apples with there is no compari the Rains have come to Africa for the first time in six there Are no food Legal soup kitchens no whatsoever from their in we have seen fit to remove countless thousands of functionally retarded adults from mental these people Street people wander the nations cities looking for handouts be cause they not Only dont want they cant do i feel sorry for them because Dogwood ers put them they dont have All the cards to play the game of life and somebody gets the Brilliant idea to take the package away that sheltered and fed they Are on the streets and cant take care of themselves this May sound harsh to but they would at least not sleep in alleys and fall victim to each other and the elements if they were weve covered the homeless now for the starving multitudes in Ameri anybody Ever hear what happened to the multitudes of homeless starving Boa people from Asia and Cuba ill Tell you what contrary to popular the greater proportion of them Are successful they Are in West they Are not in America where the people of the world wait in line to enter her Borders people that want better get there is always a i say to those people on welfare my brother is so ill use him As an work when i could not find a i joined the and when i left the Navy and could not find work i joined the air when the air Force  offer me what i wanted i joined the ill retire in a few Short years while my 32 year old brother is watching to and collecting food Stamps and free others have done did you know Martinez is the second most common name in America today i cant even pronounce much less spell the fifth and the answer is the problem is that too Many that Are too Lazy to work get the benefits of those that cant help the for the most ignore the homeless because they Are also these people deserve to be taken care of my brother does Mike Mccluskey Germany it is truly that today in our society a person can place the value of a human life Over that of just be cause one May come from a communist it must be remembered that it is Only the government that is not the people who live in while i sympathize with the starving people of i do not feel the Suc Cess of the african famine Relief efforts should be degraded because they save lives from a communist while we dont feed the people of our we divert million from Domestic programs As foreign Aid to the tiny Island nation of Grenada and place the blame for the starving people in America on a project such As the live Aid which raised almost million in a world wide Effort not just Ameri cans to decrease famine in hopefully this is not the View of the majority of As Martin Luther King once an individual has not started living until he can Rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic con Cerns to the broader concerns of All he Green Germany this is in response to the two readers who wrote to say that Usa for Africa should do something for the starving in the United during the taping of the we Are the that very Point was made by Singer Stevie and it was decided that a Perce nug of the profits made from the song would go to help the starving in the United this fact has unfortunately gone virtually ignored by most of the press in the United stars and stripes ran a Story May 1 which stated 10 percent of the profits would be used to Aid people in the United i found this information out myself from Reading the the making of we Are the profits from the Sale of this of go to the Usa for Africa Maurasse Spain