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<DIV>Of all the silly answers...I am poor, twit! The only bitterness I feel is
that of a regular tax payer who is having their hardearned pay sucked into
programs for the 'poor' with no end in sight. I can assure you there are many
more programs to 'help' the poor (that do not much more than keep them poor)
than there is for the middle class barely able to make ends meet for helping
those poor souls. As to my faith, your comments are the ones of
someone who knows nothing about it. I use the word ingrate because any time
these migrant workers protest anything they wave the Mexican flag in our
faces. Well, go back to Mexico if its so great! Try reading "The Enemy Within"
by Donald Savage. You just might learn something to make you think more deeply
about this subject. It is as always multi-faceted.</DIV>
<DIV>PK</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Leaving a few children behind</DIV>
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<DIV>Diving in as someone who spent 1990-2001 working with Mexican immigrants
in Western Washington, many of whom were considered migrant agricultural
workers by the government . . . </DIV>
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<DIV>I am sad but not surprised that this program would be cut. I am sad
but not surprised that Ms. Kraut would voice her support of cutting programs
that benefit migrant farmworker families. I am sad and astonished that
Ms. Kraut would say the things she says without apparent shame, and I trust
that she receives this in the spirit in which I intend it:</DIV>
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<DIV>Pat, how hard a heart can you have while still professing to worship
God?</DIV>
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<DIV>Given that you are almost assuredly a citizen of the United States, are
obviously literate, very likely didn't grow up in a family of illiterate and
perhaps undocumented migrant farmworkers, and seem to have grasped a kernel of
education from the husks of poverty, it is beyond my comprehension how any
dire circumstances of your youth could compare with those experienced by the
thousands and thousands of children who would have benefited from this
program. You have my sympathy for whatever hardships you undoubtedly
suffered and my sincerest regrets that your education and subsequent adulthood
left you with a paucity of argument and a parched spirit. Perhaps some
things cannot be cultivated by government help after all. </DIV>
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<DIV>I would love to meet with you and try to understand the bitterness you've
evinced toward the poor, and I would be happy to tell you the difference
education has made in the lives of scores of my friends and acquaintances in
Washington who have entered adulthood with options other than picking berries
or milking cows for a living. No need to debate programs and policies --
I just want to hear from you, and I invite you to contact me off-list.
And for those of you wondering how I, as a Christian, could avoid the model of
Matthew 18 in my response to Ms. Kraut, I would point out that public comment
often calls for public rebuke, particularly when the public rebuke might serve
as an apologetic for (defense of) the Gospel. </DIV>
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<DIV>How ironic that we don't use the word "ingrate" to describe someone who
has benefited utterly from the mercy of her Savior, and yet delights in
hurling invective at the poor He weeps for.</DIV>
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<DIV>keely emerine mix</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">Pat Kraut</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:48
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Leaving a few
children behind</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I gotta tell ya that I think that this is one of those
programs that needs<BR>to fail. Paying them to stay in school proves nothing
because they are<BR>passed through the grades without really learning
anything. If they have a<BR>real desire to stay in school they can without
being paid for it. I know<BR>that you all will have lots of comments and
complaints about my attitude but<BR>I stayed in school even with bad
circumstances and made it out on my own. I<BR>know they can do it and
appreciate their education even more. I am also<BR>tired of paying ingrates
to go to schools that are only keeping them in to<BR>pad their funds and not
really teaching them anything.<BR>Oh, here it comes!<BR>Pat<BR>-----
Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Melynda Huskey" <<A
href="mailto:mghuskey@msn.com">mghuskey@msn.com</A>><BR>To: <<A
href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A>><BR>Sent:
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:22 AM<BR>Subject: [Vision2020] Leaving a few
children behind<BR><BR><BR>> I found this news extremely disturbing . . I
hope others who do so will<BR>> contact legislators and express their
concern. If the Bush tax cuts have<BR>> been so beneficial to the
economy, and if we are indeed in an economic<BR>> recovery, why are we
reduced to cutting educational programs for extremely<BR>> vulnerable
children--programs which would enhance the earning potential<BR>and<BR>>
productivity, and hence the tax base, of our nation?<BR>><BR>> Melynda
Huskey<BR>><BR>><BR>> AP Wire:<BR>><BR>> DES MOINES, Iowa -
Funding is being eliminated for a federal program that<BR>> pays the
children of migrant workers across the country to stay in school<BR>>
instead of working in fields.<BR>><BR>> The Department of Labor
program pays some young people minimum wage to<BR>stay<BR>> in school
while migrating with their parents, who travel across the<BR>country<BR>>
looking for seasonal farm work.<BR>><BR>> Coordinators in 31 states
and Puerto Rico were told there was no money to<BR>> operate the program
this year, leaving them to find alternate sources,<BR>> petition Congress
or drop the program.<BR>><BR>> "This is a remarkable abandonment of
the most vulnerable youth," said<BR>David<BR>> Strauss, executive
director of the Association of Farmworker Opportunity<BR>> Programs. "I
don't know what's going to happen to those kids."<BR>><BR>> Repeated
telephone messages left this week for Labor Department officials<BR>>
weren't returned.<BR>><BR>> The Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Youth
Program is designed to combat<BR>> extraordinarily high dropout rates
among seasonal migrant youth workers<BR>and<BR>> the children of adult
seasonal migrant workers. It also attempts to end<BR>> cyclical poverty
and low socio-economic levels plaguing that population.<BR>><BR>> The
school dropout rate is understandable, Strauss said. "If you look at<BR>>
their lives they're in multiple schools because their families travel
to<BR>> work."<BR>><BR>> Dropout rates among migrant youths are
estimated at 60 percent, according<BR>to<BR>> the federal Office of
Migrant Education in the U.S. Department of<BR>Education.<BR>><BR>>
Students are pulled from school early because their parents move to
where<BR>> work is more plentiful, disrupting their academic progress and
causing<BR>many<BR>> to fall behind or become
discouraged.<BR>><BR>> "They're pulled out of school or start back
late," said Terry Meek of<BR>> Proteus Inc., a nonprofit organization
that oversees the Iowa program.<BR>"Some<BR>> of them are here for June,
July, August and part of September because<BR>> they're coming to work
with seed corn."<BR>><BR>> Despite the stipends, most of the young
people still work because their<BR>> families need supplemental income.
The average income of an adult farm<BR>> worker is less than $10,000 a
year.<BR>><BR>> Nationally, more than 2,500 youth ages 14 to 21
participated in the<BR>program<BR>> last year. Many came from California,
Texas and Florida.<BR>><BR>> The program also provides job placement,
tutoring, mentoring, vocational<BR>> training and career counseling
services. It also funds child care and<BR>health<BR>>
care.<BR>><BR>> Four years ago, programs across the country were
dividing a healthy $10<BR>> million a year. This year, all funding was
eliminated and coordinators<BR>were<BR>> told to use money from last year
until it dries up.<BR>><BR>> ___<BR>><BR>> On the
Net:<BR>><BR>> U.S. Department of
Labor:<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> <A
href="http://www.dol.gov/">http://www.dol.gov/</A><BR>><BR>><BR>>
U.S. Department of Education:<BR>><BR>> <A
href="http://www.ed.gov/">http://www.ed.gov/</A><BR>><BR>> Association
of Farmworker Opportunity Programs<BR>><BR>> <A
href="http://www.afop.org/">http://www.afop.org/</A><BR>><BR>><BR>>
Melynda Huskey<BR>><BR>><BR>>
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