Letter Of The Day

It doesn't matter if the U.S. Small Business Administration's 9/11 disaster loan-guarantee program was "legitimate." The idea that a pizza restaurant in Iowa received a SBA guaranteed loan because it was "adversely impacted financially by 9/11" is just plain wrong.

The 9/11 disaster was simply used as an excuse to provide a little more pork to every state in the nation.

We must demand that our elected officials not just throw money at a problem without any apparent accountability. Unfortunately, I have very low expectations that our current elected officials will do the right thing and not simply rubber stamp huge funding requests for the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

I've heard and read too many times that we must accept "a certain amount of fraud" when responding to a disaster. No we don't.

-Kurt Johnson, Urbandale.
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no, kurt, we DON'T!