Our help needs to start at home

To the editor:My friend is in her 40s and is working two part-time jobs. She would love a full-time job. She is doing the best she can, but she needed some assistance. She applied for food stamps. Considering the fact that she has to pay rent, buy gasoline to get to and from work and pay utilities, she received $10 in food stamps for a whole month. Big deal. At least she's not collecting welfare.

Have you read or heard about how many homeless people we have in the U.S.? There is no need for this. President Eisenhower's administration said, "Charity begins at home." Yet the U.S. keeps sending money and funding other projects in other countries. What is wrong with this picture?

JEAN RABE, Cape Girardeau