Letter - The test is whether we provide enough for those who have too little
In sharp contrast to the Democratic Convention, which emphasized progress for America through the middle class, the Republican Convention was a conclave of the mega-rich.
To the editor:
In sharp contrast to the Democratic Convention, which emphasized progress for America through the middle class, the Republican Convention was a conclave of the mega-rich. ABC News exposed a party on a luxury yacht for 150 mega-donors, who had each contributed over $1 million to the Republican campaign. The mega-donors refused to give their names to ABC News as they left. They refused to respond to the question, “Are you ashamed of going to this party?”
The Republican Convention also reserved an entire bleacher section for the fat cats. It was the one directly over the empty section. The ABC newscaster commented, “I wonder what kind of a payback the mega-rich will demand from a Romney administration?” The trickledown theory of economics has never worked.
We should all remember Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s quote from his inaugural address on January 20, 1937 at the height of the Great Depression. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
Marvin Jensen
Kensington, MN
(A paid political letter)
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