January 12, 1998 - Friends of Guinea: Senator Jesse Helms was quoted by the New York Times earlier this week resisting the public expenditure for the Peace Corps as, "more ratfood for the third world" and that "I've been telling people for years that Peace Corps was a refuge for drugged-out losers, leftists and homosexuals"
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January 12, 1998 - Friends of Guinea: Senator Jesse Helms was quoted by the New York Times earlier this week resisting the public expenditure for the Peace Corps as, "more ratfood for the third world" and that "I've been telling people for years that Peace Corps was a refuge for drugged-out losers, leftists and homosexuals"
Senator Jesse Helms was quoted by the New York Times earlier this week resisting the public expenditure for the Peace Corps as, "more ratfood for the third world" and that "I've been telling people for years that Peace Corps was a refuge for drugged-out losers, leftists and homosexuals"
Senator Jesse Helms was quoted by the New York Times earlier this week resisting the public expenditure for the Peace Corps as, "more ratfood for the third world" and that "I've been telling people for years that Peace Corps was a refuge for drugged-out losers, leftists and homosexuals"
Jesse Helms, leader of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, quickly seized the issue as an opportunity to discredit President Clinton's newest initiative, die expansion of the Peace Corps.
The curmudgeonly Republican from North Carolina was quoted by the New York Times earlier this week resisting the public expenditure as, "more ratfood for the third world." When he found that nearly three-quarters of the Peace Corps volunteers currently serving lead lives not dissimilar to that of Mr. Kaczinsky, Helms had this to say: "I've been. telling people for years that Peace Corps was a refuge for drugged-out losers, leftists and homosexuals. Now judicial reciprocity informs me that they're insane, too. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. All I have to ask America is whether or not they want their tax dollars supporting seven thousand lunatics. The President can pretty much expect a veto on his new bill-- why subsidize a freakshow? God Bless America. That is all."
The President had announced list week that he intended to increase Peace Corps funding by 50% in order to have "10,000 [volunteers] by 2000". Talks were underway as we went to press as to whether or not something,, could be salvaged but the Clinton administration was not optimistic. Spokesman Mike McCurry lamented, "They've got us between a rock and a hard place. Kaczinsky's last laugh, I guess."
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