Dear Editor:
The editor of this newspaper is to be congratulated for juxtaposing the several headline news stories on the Feb. 13 edition of the News Tribune. The front page brilliantly, graphically and verbally illustrates what a wonder Missouri's state Legislature is.
While they, in a fit of ethical grandstanding about a $5 lunch, simultaneously propose making Missouri a right to work RTW (starve) state. Then below the fold is a summary of Sen. David Sater's "generous" proposal that welfare benefits to families be reduced to four years from an already begrudging five years.
From the lessons of the recent general election, the termination of the routine practice of lobbyist providing sack lunches for noon time legislative meetings is no doubt a cover for the egregious sums accepted by these same legislators from these same lobbyists' Political Action Committees (PACs) for their election campaigns.
The second proposal, RTW, is of no benefit to any worker and is simply a sop to the wealthy 1 percent and billion dollar conglomerates for favors rendered. The Wall Street Journal's advocacy of RTW only proves that anyone can "Lie With Statistics." (D Huff, 1954)
And the third headline again proves that Republicans can swallow a camel (elephant in this case) and strain at a gnat. Sater's bill to reform welfare ("welfare" a code word that labels the poor as malignant and willfully lethargic) seeks to motivate the poor with the threat of starvation and homelessness rather than with hope of opportunity and recompense. The economic insanity of Sater's law Jesse Jackson best characterized in a 1988 Democratic National Convention speech. "Child-care and Parent-care (and School-care and Health-care) on the front side is a lot cheaper than Prison-care and Welfare-care on the back side."
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