This is in response to an article in the Sun Journal about food stamps (Nov. 18).

The article referred to amounts people need to qualify and the amounts people can receive in food stamps. I have been on the stamp program maybe six years. I reside in an elderly housing project. I have received cost of living raises in those years I’ve lived here. Each year, after my cost of living raises have come, my rent has gone up and my food stamps allotment has gone down. I do appreciate the stamps, but I get such a small amount I cannot buy much food.

Why is it the government can put around $87 billion into Iraq to rebuild that country while our elderly citizens choose between eating and buying medicine? Something is wrong. The elderly have to eat, too. We end up eating pills for a meal. Put some of that $87 billion to feed America’s hungry citizens, which includes me and many elderly people who live on doughnuts and skim milk to wash it down.

If we stay healthy and save Medicare costs, then we are doing our part for Washington. So, in short, let us eat food to keep healthy.

Robert A. Cutler, South Paris

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