‘Study’ Results Won’t Be a Surprise

President Bush now wants to study the qualifications, with an eye toward denying benefits, for a group of former uranium miners under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (“White House Seeks to Reduce Aid for Nuclear Weapon Workers,” Aug. 29). Add this to his desire to study arsenic levels in drinking water, the effects of global warming and the abandonment of numerous international treaties, and I almost believe that Bush is trying to make up for his days at Yale.

I soon realized that to our president, “study” simply means finding a group of cronies who already support his preferred outcome, as he has done with Social Security reform. I would imagine that a significant campaign contribution from the afflicted workers and miners would go a long way toward a satisfactory outcome, as has been the case for the energy and defense industries.

John Hoyt

Culver City