A Budget? or Punishment!

Letters to the editor: All are punished
Posted: 07/21/2009 05:18:20 PM PDT

Tuesday's headlines read, "California governor, lawmakers reach budget deal."

I wonder how many of these "lawmakers" will attend the funerals of people who die for lack of care; how many will visit the elderly who are forced into nursing homes; how many of their children will have to attend over sized classrooms; how many of their children go without college - the list is endless as are the numbers of people who "care" but who will lose their "caring" jobs.

At the end of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," the Prince shouts at the players as he views the sorrow that surround them: "All are punish'd!"

All are "punish'd": Democrats for forgetting "the least of these." And Republicans who do not care.