Welfare Initiative

Call me a “bleeding heart,” if you like, but I am furious that nearly $750,000 has been spent to gather signatures for Gov. Pete Wilson’s so-called welfare reform initiative for the Nov. 3 ballot.

With voter approval, this initiative will cut welfare benefits by 15% for most families and deny grants to children born to mothers already on welfare.

So, what does Wilson propose we do with the “welfare babies”? Abort them, abuse them or abandon them? How ironic that upwards of $1 million could be spent between now and the November election to take food out of the mouths of the poor!

ANDREW EXLER, Palm Springs