Dear Editor: -

I would like to open by stating that I also am a single mother with two children to support. I have been. sup- porting them the past two years.

I am angered by the responses to the article “I won't let my children Starve.”

I am a stubborn and self- sufficient woman. I have ambitions for myself greater than the status of welfare, as I am sure that most women do. But at the same time, I am also a very lucky woman. I am surrounded by fainily and friends that love and support our family.

So, why am I writing, you

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Dear Editor:

Just wanted to thank you for “Focus” of Wednesday, January 21. It’s a relief: to know that someone is aware of what is going on and is willing to say something about it. Of course, ifthe daily papers are saying much ' the same thing nowadays, so much the better: I wouldn't know — stopped reading them years ago because it seemed to me that they were more concerned with keeping Trudeau in power than in keeping the people informed; a circumstance which I found decidedly frightening.

It has always been my opinion that, right from Day One, the P.M.’s intent was eventually to denude the provinces of their powers, so that he could take over the country and run it to suit

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If it were not for the encouragement, faith, trust, and,.yes, most of all, support of all the people around me,

I could never have gotten off ~

welfare. I have. been off welfare for about a year and a half and I intend to stay off.

Welfare and the beliefs that go around about those that receive assistance are centered on the idea that if you take money from_ the government you are a “burden” and a leech, living. and scrounging off society. A vacuum, always taking,

_ never giving.

Let me ask those of you who believe this fallacy, how can any one who asks for

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himself. Now, he may be within an ace of achieving his purpose.

Oh, I’m sure there are vast numbers of well-meaning people who feel we ought to: be prepared to make any sacrifice in order to keep. Canada whole. Hah! Better to be Balkanized than come: totally under the control of. old Machiavelli cohorts. Der Fuhrer was. -once much admired for the way in which he welded. the country together and cut out all that petty bickering: between provinces ...

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