Two past, published Letters to the Editor: TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL Nov. 19, 2010 entitled LOVING MONEY: President Barack Obama is not a Muslim. He is not a socialist. He was not born in a foreign country. He is not destroying America. Yet Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and scores of others in the conservative media have spent the past two years perpetuating daily these untruths. They should be ashamed for fattening their bank accounts by bearing false witness against a neighbor. A day of reckoning will come when Americas false prophets will be held accountable for their hateful trashing of a good person. Whats destroying America insidiously from within is greed. Yes, the love of money is the source of all kinds of evil. Yes, brother Cain, and the rich man who daily ignored the beggar Lazarus, we are our brothers and sisters keepers. Yes, it does take a village to raise a child. Yes, people of faith, we are currently living in Gods kingdom on earth and greed is not a kingdom value. If Jesus Christ, the epitome of love and source of good news for the poor, were living in the United States today, he would be vilified by the prophets of greed. Jesus would go to New York and turn over the moneychangers tables on Wall Street asking, What are you doing corrupting Gods kingdom with your selfishness? Agents of greed, how is your love of money consistent with the In God We Trust slogan inscribed on your currency? We keep glibly pleading for God to bless America, but I dont believe God is pleased that we love money more than we love God. Only Gods transforming love can bring real, needed change to our country. We might start by reforming an economic system that currently makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. Reform could happen if we loved the poor as much as God does. Paul L. Whiteley Sr. Louisville, Ky. LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL Feb. 17, 2011 entitled CORPORATE WELFARE: It is interesting Sen. Mitch McConnell calls the tax check-off welfare for politicians. The only welfare he approves of is corporate welfare. It is not surprising McConnell introduced legislation in the Senate to end the public financing of presidential campaigns. McConnell revels in the money is speech and corporations are people Supreme Court rulings that unjustly favor the selfish interests of the rich minority in our country. His 27 years in the Senate have shown he is the Prince of Plutocracy, one who believes in government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. If he were an advocate of democracy, he would not have opposed motor-voter registration. Suppressing voter turnout helps him and his party. Democracy demands more people get actively involved in the political process. There is something morally and spiritually wrong in a country that enables the rich to get rich while the poor get poorer. There is something wrong with wanting to limit government by cutting spending for needed social programs that benefit the poor, the sick, the elderly, while unlimited amounts of dollars are spent on political campaigns to elect candidates whose votes can be bought by those who donate huge amounts of cash for special favors. The citizens of Egypt finally got smart and decided to do something about their ruling-from-the-top-down government. Bob Herbert, a NEW YORK TIMES columnist, wrote recently that he had lunch with the historian Howard Zinn just a few weeks before Zinn died in January 2010. Zinn was chagrined about the state of affairs in the U.S. but not at all daunted. If there is going to be change, he said, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. The financially strapped middle class and poor cannot take advantage of the money is speech and corporations are people rulings, but, if well-organized , they can talk with their feet when the need arises. Paul L. Whiteley Sr. Louisville 40207
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