European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 13 columns the stars and stripes wednesday february 4,1987 today s crossword welfare family bugs president Byar Buchwald there have been recent report that president Rea Gan s attention Span is getting Shorter and he keep wandering away from he subject at hand. One snide written by Martin Tolchin in the Newyork times reported congressman Robert Michel the House Republican Leader urged the president to sup port a Federal health insurance program for catastrophic illness. Or. Reagan responded to the request by telling a Story about a welfare family living in a phut hotel in new York at enormous Cost to the taxpayer when it was pointed out to the president that health insurance is not a welfare program m. Reagan it said to have repeated the Story again. Before anyone Cornel to any conclusions that the president has changed since the Republican lost the Senate and the United states ton the Contra Money in Switzerland let me say the Story of a welfare family living in a Plush hotel in new York has been bugging or. Reagan for six Yean. White House sources say the president is obsessed with finding this family and showing them up for what they Are Liberal Chute in feeding at the government trough. The problem or. Reagan has in producing the Fimi by is thai he heard the Story about them secondhand. He cant remember who told it to him. And so he has been forced to instigate search himself. It s taken up a great Deal of hit time. They say the president will sit in his Oval office latest night studying a map of Manhattan. Then hell pick up the phone and speak to Fri director William Bill did you find them Yett no or. President. But we re thinking of organizing a Sling operation and offering free rooms in the Ritz Carlton to anyone now on welfare. We think that Way we could smoke them out what about the Plaza Bill we be got every room wired and we re giving lie Detector tests to anyone who gets on the have to be somewhere he president pro tests. A welfare family can t just disappear among eight million people in a City like new Webster ays the Fri swat team is raiding s Palace a careful. Bill a welfare family who lives in deluxe hotel can be very the president hangs up and buzzes the air Force command Center. Any photos of the welfare family who Are living off the fat of the land no sir. Today s satellite pictures show nothing but a string of muggings and a dozen City commissioner being paid off by Don Regan comes in or. President do you want Tocheck Over this trillion Dollar budget Don if you were a welfare cheat what fancy hotel would you Hole up in in new York How about the Hilton that s a thought. Why Don t we stay there the next time we re in the City. Then when i m taking a Nap Pat Buchanan can hold you up on his shoulders and you can peek Over the think you ought to read this latest Senate report which tells How badly you fouled up on the Iran what i d like to do says or. Reagan is drag the entire family on television and Chow the american people what kind of welfare bums Are living in our bes hotels these that s Fine it. Now what do you want to do about the contras in Nicaragua Fly them up Here and have them search the Wal Dorf Astoria room by 0 lot Angeltki Almu of those aching backs in Elpaso byjoe Murra Lufkin Texas you know Whit s worse than throwing your Back out of whack it s throwing your Back out of whack while you re in Elpaso. Mind you that s Elpaso and not Juarez. But just try to convince your wife. If you can come on Over to my House. Maybe you can convince it is 1 can t get any sympathy. 1 barely managed to get in the thinks it happened while i was Over in Mexico dancing the Carioca with a sexy lady in a Black Satin gown and waving a Large feathered Fen. Mind you thai the woman waving the fan ridiculous though it May sound that exactly what she imagines it s not so much that my wife is out of touch with reality rather that she is very much in touch with my , too she is Quick to remind me that there actually was that time when i was dancing the Carioca with a Beautiful woman in a Black Satin gown and waving a Large feathered fan. But just that , on that particular occasion the sexy lady in the Mack Satin gown was my wife. Admittedly i waste Penon waving the Large weathered fan. You d have thought it Duld Rve helped me keep my balance. No Mailer. In those Days i bounced Well and most every body else on the dance floor probably thought it was anew dance step. Who realty knows How to do the Cario Ca anyway but that was years ago. I Don t do that anymore if i fell Down nowadays it d break More than my , As any logical Penon would readily agree 1 did not throw my Back out doing what i should thave. Well not exactly. What 1 was doing there in the privacy of my hotel room on the Elpaso Side of the Border was exec in i Don t to link doing the Sil ups was what did me Likely in was the stretching exercise the Pue where you extend your right Arm Over your head and Bend As Faras you can to the left and then repeat it with the opposite Arm and the opposite that morning and afternoon i had la sit through a business meeting this being a business trip Don you know with my Back killing me. Two Days later i m in Lufkin but my Back s not yet in whack. Hmm. I wonder if there s a song Lyric Here. I left my Back oat of whack feel Paw. La at Dah a dab de dab de dab hmm. Probably not anything you could dance the Carioca to where it hurts is in the Small of my Back a Misnomer if there Ever was one. When i lie Down it feels May want 10 note that in Case you Ever suffer the same affliction. Note also it does not feel of when you Fly on a Jet plane and the Way Back from Elpaso. Do you realize Elpaso is closer to lot Angeles than to Luik in that s a Long Way Back. It s even longer with a bad Back especially when you have to travel in the cheap and All what happened to me in Elpaso could have been even worse. Suppose in the throes of throwing my Back out of whack i had lurched sideways and out the window of the hotel room tumbling seven floors into the Alley below my fall broken Only by a Cushion of empty tins of Jalapeno and last night tequila bottles. Yes that would Nave been worse. 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