President Bush’s State of Union
All hail our many-faceted President for his sound sense of proportion.
Our “education President” has allocated for Head Start programs, one-half as much as for rebuilding the parts of Panama he destroyed as a Christmas gift to the poor of that country (Part A, Feb. 1).
Our “environment President” has decided that twice that amount should “do it” for salvaging our vast nation’s tenuous hold on life on this planet as we knew it.
Our “support repressive governments as long as they aren’t communist” President has asked for $50 million more to add to our daily $1.5 million contribution to the well-being of the Salvadoran government. But, patience. Surely the homeless, the fixed-income aged, and the uninsured ill can wait at least until the next State of the Union message, to hope for a little of the largess our President reserves for his own.
JEAN K. GLASSER
Van Nuys
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