To the editor:
Re: "Welfare Food Challenge participants hungry and stressed," Oct. 26
The progressive, compassionate advocates for those languishing on the current, absurdly low welfare rate unfortunately are likely wasting their time and effort.
I read somewhere that, when informed and then questioned, "many" B.C.ers were "shocked" at the incredible hardships of those people subsisting on welfare's extremely meager pittance. Furthermore, very high and low income folk were found to have one notable ideological commonality: They're sick and tired of any of their tax dollars going towards a social safety net that can be, and likely often is, shamefully abused. And while some of these folk are quite vocal about their non-charitable sentiments, I believe that the majority of them are silent - except at the ballot box.
Frank G. Sterle, Jr., White Rock