One Dollar

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I appreciate your concern regarding farmworker families and sympathize

with your experiences in field. Your are correct, there are many

injustices in the fields. I see it everyday in my work. However, I

think one dollar is quite a bit when it means having to decide between

an inexpensive loaf of bread or toothpaste. If I were faced with the

same decision as many of my families are everyday, I would choose a loaf

of bread over toothpaste any day. Its really not about just one dollar,

my families often live in remote areas. In fact, the majority of my

families live on an average 15 miles from the closest business district.

So, what that they are faced with is considering gas costs, their car

breaking down, the cost of the toothpaste, and possible even being cited

by the local Sheriff's office for a disrepaired car (cracked windshield,

turnsignal not working) just to buy a tube of toothpaste. When

farmworker families consider all these things, and they nearly often do,

it quite easy not to buy toothpaste. What I want to do is give my

families some choices if they can't buy toothpaste. I know there are

other alternatives out there and I have received some advice from some

great people in this group. Again thank you for your concern about this

issue and I hope all of us can find ways to lessen the suffering of

migrant farmworker families.

Respectfully,

>>> drosales15@... 08/01/03 11:39AM >>>

As a wife of a previous farmworker it strikes me unbelievable that a

family

would not be able to pay 1.00 for a tube of tooth paste in order to

prevent

tooth decay.I too sympathize with farmworkers .There is alot of

unjustice in

those fields believe when I say we know we suffer everyday from these

work related

injuries and we have not been in an orchard now for 10 yrs.and our

teeth are

bad but it was not due to not having tooth paste it was from the harsh

chemical.so what is 1.00 to invest for dental hygiene.Because let me

tell you there

is alot worse and everyone can afford a dollar. I think that it is

great that

you take your interest in farmworkers.R.