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Feeling pain from cuts

I get even more shocked every time I read the letters submitted to your paper.

I’ve read we should cut teachers’, police and firefighters’ wages. I’ve read we should not allow these valuable members of our community to bargain collectively to get better wages, health care or retirement benefits.

I’ve read we should take food away from hungry young mothers and their infants and cut Medicaid so the poor can’t receive health care. I’ve read we should eliminate college grants that will deny the young a better chance at a good job, we should raid Social Security and steal from our working class any and all hope of an easy transition to the golden years.

And all the while the large corporations must get their subsidies, and tax breaks because they have become the real PEOPLE in our country now. I would be ashamed if I wasn’t so sickened by these so-called people and their conservative values.

Douglas A. Hutchins

Newport, Wash.

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