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worker. Then the daughter will be sent back home, only to be beaten and sexually abused again.
As most of us who are parents know, nearly all teenagers at some period view their parents as inadequate, wrong-headed, awful ogres. Most of us can ride through this difficult period until our kids reach “the age of sufficient wisdom” and we become close again. But, during that period of adolescent rebellion, kids do foolish things. If parents keep the lines of communication open, are steadfast, flexible and compassionate, their teenage daughters (and sons) are likely to confide in them. * That is true parental notification.
* JOYCE ABELL
Woodville > ;iy
Mr. Frazier
reiterates
To the Editor:
I was pleased to read the responses to my letter of March 5 to this paper. The different writers seemed upset that someone would have the nerve to say the things I did in my letter.
I was accused of trying to put people (artists) out of work and censorship simply because I stated that taxpayers money should not be spent this way. Bill Watson said “perhaps we should knock off this silly notion that we are trying to create a culture and knuckle down to some honest work.” This statement is exactly what I wanted to see, for he followed that statement with one that belittled a segment of working class people of this country (those that work in the fast food industry), who pay for the grants that National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) dishes out!
After reading the responses to my letter, I have concluded that the NEA is nothing more than an elitist welfare program where able bodied people receive monies from those that they look down upon. Sure, arts funding has provided many good artists encouragement and the American society has benefited from this; ' but it is a program that should never have been started by the federal government to begin with. State and local maybe, but the feds should have stayed clear of it.
Many artists have an accountability problem. They ask for public funding yet cry foul if we complain about their expressionism. This is to be expected since the Congress that approved this agency and their successors have shown that they will avoid accountability also.
The excessive spending of our government and its ever increasing social agenda will certainly come crashing down around us. Just as the all-government system of the Soviet Union fell a few months back.
This country will face some hard times as we stop deficit spending and start paying on the national debt; but it must start somewhere.
So let’s start right here in little ole Rappahannock by tightening our belts and preserving the “culture” that this country had prior to NEA that of honest, hardworking people who put themselves through college by working in the “burger pits” and
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