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Relief funding should be used for pandemic-related efforts only

By Staff | Apr 15, 2020

To the editor:

The ink on Phase 3 of the Corovavirus Relief Bill isn’t even Dry and Congress is looking to have a Phase 4 bill. It seems every time the country faces a crisis, real or perceived, there is a rush in Congress to act. Like it’s Christmas time with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads passing massive bills that go far beyond responding to the matter at hand. These phonebook-sized emergency acts are too long and detailed and boring for any legislator to read and fully comprehend.

But we the people can read it and find it’s always stuffed with gimmicks, giveaways, sweetheart deals and ill-advised policies inserted by lobbyists and special interest groups with no bearing on the COVID-19 crisis itself. In Phase 3 there was $25 million for Kennedy Arts, $75 million for PBS and NPR, millions for migration and refugee assistance and Planned Parenthood, billions of dollars that had nothing to do with the pandemic. How many ventilator masks and how much medical equipment could be brought or more money put in the pockets of the recent unemployed or small business if we would just stick to solving the problem. It’s time for voting some of these officials out of office and have term limits so that our elected officials look out for our needs not special interests

Lou Walker

Cape Coral