Welfare for the rich expands

Our congresswoman is at it again, voting to cut school lunches and Meals on Wheels while adding billions to the Defense Department unwanted by the Pentagon. She supports tax breaks for the rich and corporations posting huge profits. We aren’t talking about wealth redistribution or punishing success. It’s the government giving money to people that don’t want or need it.

Now, those kids and seniors are supposed to take a suggestion from our congresswoman and U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and get their food from the free market. The kids who don’t have money for lunch could do homework and chores for kids with money. Seniors could convert their wheelchairs into lawn mowers to earn money for food.

The congresswoman must think kids can choose their parents’ genes and wealth, and seniors should have made better choices before getting sick, old and disabled. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers believes the government should reward the lucky and successful with more tax breaks and subsidies. She is making the food welfare line shorter and the corporate welfare line longer. Government-provided food helps the farmer, distributor, kids and seniors. Government welfare for corporations just pads their offshore bank accounts.

Pete Scobby

Newport