10.14.2009 1:25 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
While eating breakfast and reading the paper this morning it occured to me that as important as free health care is free food is even more critical. Millions of americans suffer from poor nutrition and the government does little to…
07.03.2009 5:32 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It has been estimated 50 million Americans do not have health insurance. Presumably, the vast majority can’t afford it. The U.S. Senate’s solution is to fine each of these people $1,000.
(Next, we can fine each homeless person $1,000 for not…
08.06.2008 3:00 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The article “Fear Spurs Teens to Carry Guns, They Say” was interesting reading. What I find interesting is what the Post-Dispatch and like minded liberals find as cause-and-effect relationships, and as being self evident. Other well worn examples being poverty…
05.28.2008 11:51 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Thank you for the piece on Venezuela and Chavez. It’s very hard to find balanced reporting in American newspapers on countries and leaders our capitalist political leaders dislike. The history of US-Latin American relations is a record played over and…
05.23.2008 11:50 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Please allow me to correct the misinformation on the Global Poverty Act in Ron Hammelman’s letter (“Nations in Need” May 21.)
There is no commitment of tax dollars in the act, no hand-off of money to “tyrants and crooks,” and no…
04.02.2008 12:35 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Editor, Since 1965 taxpayers have spent in excess of 2 trillion dollars on the “War on Poverty” I have one question. Are we winning?
Ed Wichmann Sr.
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