Letter Of The Day

comes from my hometown newspaper.

By EDGAR DOROW, Osage

The U.S. Senate is set to cut $574 million from the food stamp program as a cost-saving measure, taking critical nutrition support from thousands of families, many of them working. The Senate is also set to pass $70 billion in tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans,which is 122 times as much as the food stamp “savings.”

Who is at the public trough here?

I can’t believe that our senators would support either measure; if they do, it is further evidence that wealth runs the government for its own benefits, not for the majority of the people in this democracy.

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