European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 a the stars and stripes monday november 11,1991today�?Ts crossword Ann Landers dear Ann Landers in be been following your readers comments about people on welfare. You know whom i mean a the trash who Crank out one kid after another those freeloaders who sponge off hard working people like me. I cheered when i read the letters from Palo Alto to Pittsburgh a readers who Are As fed up As i am with those parasites. Say what you like about nazi Germany miss Landers but those people had character. They honoured the work ethic and knew what it was to pull themselves up by their Bootstraps. Over the Entrance to nazi concentration Camps was the slogan in German that read a work makes you free a a concept we have lost in America. I am one of those americans who has too much self respect to ask for something for nothing. I would never lower myself to accept unemployment compensation or welfare. I dare you to print this. . In Middlesex mass. Dear mass just when i think in be read everything i get a letter from a self righteous jackass spouting off about the work ethic and quoting of All things a slogan Over the Entrance of a nazi concentration Camp. Its useless to try to talk sense to people like you so i wont try. The next letter will put the welfare matter in a More objective Light. I done to expect you to understand it but millions of others will. Dear Ann Landers i am a welfare mom raising my son alone. I cat Bologna sandwiches so my child can have Chicken and fruit. I buy my clothes at the salvation army and limit myself to two tanks of Gas a month in my Clunker car. I came dear Abby dear readers its time to hoist the flags keep your powder dry Damn the torpedoes and full Speed ahead in other words Don Grimes president of the 1991 America remembers Campaign sent the new addresses for our Young men and women serving in the military. Your cards letters and goodies will he wonderful morale boosters. I Hope that you will open your hearts to those who must be separated from their families for the holidays. Love Abby for members of each Branch of the service in South Korea. Mail should be addressed to a dear Friend a America remembers . Forces Korea attn operation dear Abby unit no. 15627 Apo 96202-0006 for . Troops in Turkey helping with operation provide Comfort. Mail should he addressed on the inside to a dear Friend a America remembers operation provide Comfort attn operation dear Abby co in Ciurlik a Apo a 09258 for soldiers in Europe. Mail can be addressed Toquib Bley once too have placed the resistor into the  Mamed in red. Connect the hi6h voltage it left Carie to the dbl tree of Liflet. From a dysfunctional family and was a victim of sexual abuse. My Mother supported my sister and me by working two jobs which meant she had no time for. Us. She put us in Day care and we were Latchkey kids. When mom worked nights her boyfriends molested us. I married a con Man and got pregnant. He took my savings and blew it on cocaine when 1 thought he was building us a Home. I finally divorced him. So Here i am with a 4-Ycar-old boy no child support and no Alimony. There is no family member i would Trust to watch my son but he has me. In a not perfect but i done to abuse or neglect him. Nor would i allow anyone else to. I never bring boyfriends Home and i done to drink or do drugs. God gave me this child. He is precious. I want to be there for All those special moments in his life. In be been trying to find work i can do at Home but so far in be been unsuccessful. When my son goes to kindergarten i will take any kind of Job i can find and get off your Back or. Taxpayer. Until then in a just hanging on and thankful that welfare has made it possible for me to raise my child. I done to expect to see this letter in your column Ann but i feel better knowing in be defended myself and other mothers like me. It hurts when millions of people Call us Lazy. I realize they need scapegoats to blame for their tax burdens and we Are easy targets. But ill always be grateful and ill remember their support when i get on my feet. Columbus Ohio dear Columbus thanks for telling the other Side of the Story. Granted some folks do abuse welfare and they should be tracked Down and rooted out. But the majority of welfare recipients Are decent people who Are in desperate need of government assistance and mighty glad to have it. C creators Syndicate inc. A dear soldiers or a dear Friend a America remembers . 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