
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 18, 1992                   TAG: 9203180335
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A10   EDITION: METRO 
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CANDIDATE'S FISCAL LAXITY MIRRORS NATION'S

MY HUSBAND works two part-time jobs and is a full-time student in Virginia Tech's College of Engineering. I work a full-time job, a part-time job, and am a part-time graduate student. Money is often very tight for us.

This is no excuse, however, for financial irresponsibility, as Renee Anderson asserts. Missing payments on one's student loans is not a part of growing up. Making the loan payments is. Learning to set up a budget and live within one's means is also a part of growing up.

Although the choice for Roanoke's City Council will have no direct effect on me as a Blacksburg resident, I see Ms. Anderson as representative of the problems facing this country. Her blatant misuse of a free-parking stamp, in combination with her own financial ineptitude, hardly qualifies her to represent the many hard-working honest people of the Roanoke Valley.

Furthermore, it is for these exact same reasons that we should clean the House of Representatives of all of the dishonest and inept members who, as it has recently come to light, have similar difficulties keeping something so simple as a checkbook.

KATHRYN MAYBERRY

BLACKSBURG

by CNB