Pay Raises for State Officials, Pay Cuts for Poor

I see our legislators and governor are getting a substantial raise. In the meantime, this same state is depriving the disabled and the aged poor of their annual cost-of-living raise. The raise that state legislators will get is about $12,000 more per year. That is twice the entire yearly earnings of the aged poor and disabled. What this state and this country need is revolution.

Millionaire politicians vote themselves raises while people struggling at the very bottom of the social order are squeezed. We’ve had enough of this cynicism. No wonder George Bush wants to put the emir back on the throne of Kuwait in the name of democracy. Democracy is owned and operated in this country by the same oligarchy that exists in Kuwait.

I don’t want to hear any more crap about people who earn their living selling crack in the ghettos. Not when I see our fat-cat politicians refusing to bite the bullet while the poor who already have nothing are constantly shoved into the dirt.

ROBERT L. GREENFIELD, Goleta