The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, February 24, 1993 5 VALVES 4 ¢ LN ey a go) A dA wr Aa 2 = a V. WW \R - a (] =r pra ples — Z 4 & LS N Leg in the field of » | ‘Old Photo (All that we can tell you about this photoristhat itmust-have been taken inthe fall. There are lots of ;leaves in the: background. Maybe it's three generations? You tell us. Call 675-5211 and identify. ?] Pathfinder i (continued from page 1) 1 Sordoni, Patricia Davies, Anne Vernon and Nancy Noonan for achievements education; the Rev. Anita Ambrose, ] Sr. Julian Baird, R.S.M. and June | Blum, Golubock, for their work in the religious field; Lea Casala and ! Sr. Barbara Craig, R.S.M., for their 4 peace activist work; Evelyn Gurbst for efforts in developing child care programs; Sr. Siena Finley, R.S.M., for her work in ethics; and Phyllis Belk, Harriet McGeehan, Audrey Wynn Spence, Shawn Murphy and | Susan Nenstiel, for their work on behalf of women’s equity. : LEAD EER Old basketball photo identified in your drinking The Old Basketball photo that ran February 3rd sure was a big hit water? with our readers. Maybe because it's basketball season. : “Our first call came from 8-year-old Steven Neiman of 32 Old Mill Are you ‘Road, Dallas. Steven's mom, the former Beverly Pugh, went to school with this team. concerned? .Cindy Lefko now living in Forty Fort, called her mom who lives in - Dallas with the names to give us also. We have lead \ Then Jim Walsh’s mother called, Jim is in the photo. 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Still, and perhaps more to the point, the real numbers are these: one out of every 50 white persons in this country receives some sort of government welfare...one out of every six black persons receive welfare, and one out of every ten persons of Hispanic origin are on the welfare roles. And when you add the follow- ing fact...thataslateas the 1930's, illegitimate black children were far fewer in actual numbers than illegitimate white children, then the abject failure of the liberal approach to welfare becomes all too apparent. We also now have a service, rather than a manufacturing economy. In concert with this shift to a service economy has been a move in education which, ironi- cally, has deemphasized voca- tional training, replaced by em- phasis on the so-called profes- sions. We have now, in fact, institu- tionalized the notion of our daugh- ters (and sons) growing up to marry doctors, lawyers and ac- countants, while deriding the notion of craftsmen, and manual laborers in general. We have, in effect, said that non-intellectual work is unworthy: therefore, the people who do it are unworthy. Works out great for one's self- esteem, doesn't it? What does all of this have to do with welfare and/or abuse of the system, and/or illegitimate chil- dren. Read on.... The rhetoric of those who allege fraud and abuse of the welfare system is the least of welfare problems. The major problem is the system itself, not its manipu- lations. Welfare benefits often equal or exceed the pay of many jobs. This creates a disincentive to work. As a result of misplaced humanitar- ian concerns, many states now give welfare recipients a package of benefits which far exceed the value of the recipients potential earnings. Conversely, there's no small connection between an individual being pushed into (and unable to grasp) an intellectual educational track, and that same individual ending up on welfare in the first place. Likewise, it is ridiculous to believe that welfare recipients would be willing to give up these benefits for a lower net income since working itself may be incon- venient, uncertain in duration and expensive in itself. And if a family can get even more money based on the number of children it has, is it any wonder that we've had a dramatic increase in the number of illegitimate births among those already at the bottom of the eco- nomic ladder? On one hand we have an edu- cational system which largely laughs at manual labor (vocational education), and other so-called educated in a system which pro- vides more compensation than a person could earn by using his or her own, even refined, abilities. Does it then take a college degree to figure out this system will be replete with fraud? Will be abused? Put another way: How many of you would, given the opportunity, pass up a free lunch? How many of you do? At the same time, the welfare system has all but eliminated the ‘push of poverty.’ Without deficit spending by the federal govern- ment, therein lies a major reason for a stagnant economy and re- peated cycles of recession and recovery. People whose poverty may only be temporary if left alone (orif manuallabor were once again elevated to a position of honor) are treated as if they have a perma- nent and dehabilitating disease. By putting these people on wel- fare, we give them more money (in actual cash and benefits) than they could earn at the bottom of the economic ladder. And what's wrong with that you might ask? It's wrong because it effectively removes those persons from any opportunity to climb the economic ladder because incentive has been removed. Without incentive, ac- cess to the economic ladder is effectively denied. Now citizens below an arbitrar- ily established poverty line are labeled “disadvantaged.” Incen- tive has been stolen from them by a welfare system which cannot wait to smother incentive mounds of humanitarian concern. Incentive has also been side- tracked by an educational system which now refuses to value man- ual labor, replaced by a glorifica- tion of the professions. Being poor is nothing to be ashamed about. In a free enterprise system, doing nothing about being poor is the cause for shame. When a government, in order to keep itself employed, artificially raises a citizen's standard of liv- ing beyond that citizen's ability to do the same, it's time for reevalu- ation. When an educational system devalues vocational education in favor of the professions—and when the latter is the idealistic exception rather than the realis- tic rule—then it’s time for reevalu- ation. While this country may now be reacting smugly to events in East- ern Europe; while we may now think we are poised on the pedes- tal of greatness as a shining ex- ample of what our European brethren believe they want, our present course of manual labor derision and its welfare/illegili- mate children by-product, actu- ally is threatening to topple us into an abyss fraught with the very real danger of a future Civil War between ever more clearly defined haves’ and have nots’. In the meantime, and with manual labor derision, there may soon not be enough people left to con- struct the ivory towers in which those we've created this mess have hidden themselves. We Admit Some Of Our Branch Are A Little OutOFTh a Way Seaside spot or back-road stop, if you can get to a phone, you can get to the bank. At least, if you're one of our customers. Open accounts, transfer funds, check balances? Of course, of course, of course. All week long, even nights. There's one hitch, though. 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