Republican Leaders get No Free Lunch

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Not surprisingly Allen Shirley (Globe, Aug. 4th) defended a local Republican lawmaker (Steve Hunter-127) who has recently accepted more than his peers in the way of lobbyist gifts while supporting cutting assistance to the poor and disabled. First, we can agree that because an activity is legal doesn’t make it moral. Second, it is one thing to live a privileged life style and quite another to live a privileged life style while cutting assistance for the poor and disabled.

We don’t want assistance going to people who will waste it on drugs or who don’t need it. The mentally ill, the upright poor, and the disabled should not have been the baby that got thrown out with the bath water. The rich and powerful have a unique opportunity to assist others that many do not have. Steve Hunter had that same opportunity and he chose what Representative Barnitz called, “the legislative equivalent of pushing someone in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs.”

The next time Rep. Hunter has a free dinner paid for by lobbyists, I suggest he do the following: “When you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous” (Luke 14:13-14).


Background of this oped:

The above editorial was submitted to a rural Missouri newspaper, in a district not much different than that which Paul Hackett almost won in. Missouri has faced some of this nations most draconian Medicaid Cuts at the hands of Roy Blunt's Callous son, Matt Blunt. Not one single MO Democratic House member voted for the cuts.

[DavidDvorkin]

1. I'm puzzled by the "atheist" part

Is there more to this that would put that in context?

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2. Yeah, some wacky conservatives always call liberals that, so

why not return the favor?

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3. Ok, I just changed it.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. I hope you don't mean that you used "atheist" as an insult

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5. I wouldn't find it insulting. Forgive me. I didn't submit it that way

to the newspaper..