Print Page  Letter to the Editor: Everyone is eating    The
title of this letter is part of a direct quote from Secretary of
State Colin Powell spoken on The Late Show with David Letterman
on Thursday September 25, 2003.  The entire statement was:
"Everyone is eating, town councils are in place throughout the
country, and of all things, PTAs are forming. To put the new
democratic government in place, the president (Bush) asked
Congress for a supplemental financial amount."  In case you
don't know, he's talking about Iraq. My question is this. Why
does everyone in Iraq get to eat on our money when we have
people starving by the millions in our own country?  There was
an article in the Salt Lake Tribune on September 14, 2003 by
Terry Haven who is an Advocate for Children. In it she states
figures from The American Community Survey that in Utah 13.1
percent of children live in poverty; and from The 2003 Measures
of Child-Well Being that 50,000 of Utah's children have no
health insurance. I think you could conser