Earning a Living May Entail a Move

Re “End of Welfare Leaves Rural Poor in a Bind,” April 6:

As a fifth-grade teacher, I read your article on the end of welfare and the rural poor. I can probably tell you how seriously many of these people took the free education given them by the taxpayers. I feel that my job every day is to sell education. Some accept what I am selling, and some do not. How lovely it would be to live in a rural area with seven children. Reality is, if you want work, “go to where the air stinks.” This was advice given to my husband when he looked for work in a depressed Colorado in 1971. We ended up in Carson, Calif., a far cry from Evergreen, Colo., but he had a job, and we never had to turn to anyone for financial assistance. We also limited our family to three because we knew that was all we could realistically afford to raise. After reading your article, I once again realized that I could not work with adults who have made many poor choices. Give me children who still have a chance to make something positive of their lives and not need financial assistance of the taxpayers.

Marsha Mulroney

Placentia