I don’t know why people are so surprised at what George W. Bush did to the economy. Anyone with a decent memory was unsurprised, as I was. When Ronald “Gubmint isn’t the solution, gubmint is the problem.” Reagan was in…

Your editorial in the Wednesday P-D, Left Behind, about poverty in Missouri and the relationship to the loss of jobs was interesting. But as like others complaining about U. S. jobs going overseas you have not addressed one of the…

This is in response to the 7/31 Equal Opportunity letter which criticized your 7/28 editorial on minimum/maximum wage imbalance.

The writer implies that low wage earners lack ambition. I say, rather than complaining, (if they are not too lazy), they should…

I have a friend who was recently laid off from her job with a hollywood show, which has apparently had to make many such cut-backs to their staff. Then, as I browse various headlines, I see a story stating that…

In Charles Krauthammer’s column published today (Sunday May 5, 2009) in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he used James Madison as his authority for accusing President Obama of trying to either subvert or pervert the Constitution in an attempt to “level”…

Recent cries from the conservative right that President Barack Obama is waging class warfare against them seem to ignore the pink elephant they want to ignore that the wealthy have been waging class warfare on the lower classes for quite…