Metro benefits are not exclusive to federal workers
Re: “Federal workers get free rides on Metro,” March 23
For the last several months, I’ve enjoyed picking up your paper to read during my long subway commute. So I was very dismayed seeing your headline bashing federal employees for accepting commuting subsidies. I immediately threw out your paper and will never read it again.
In many ways, I am quite conservative politically. I also happen to be a federal employee. Since the government is the main “industry” in this town, I imagine that most – if not a vast majority – of Examiner readers are federal employees. Why are you attacking us?
The transit benefits program is not exclusive to the federal government. Many private companies offer it as well. It’s called an “incentive”. Yet you singled out just one group of employees who accept this benefit.
Good-bye.
Jeffrey Moyer
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Republican minority leader is a hypocrite
Re: “John Boehner chastises his colleagues, ‘Hell no you can’t!'” March 22
Poor John Boehner! He wept so bitterly as he bemoaned the Democrats ramming health care through Congress. He sobbed so pitifully that they violated the will of the American people.
But you see, John, I have an attention span. I remember the past eight years when both Congress and the Bush administration were doing both of those things, and you loved it!
Typical Republican hypocrisy.
Andrew Smith
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Blame public schools, not teachers unions
Re: “Unions, public schools and minority children,” March 21
It is easier for Star Parker to scapegoat teachers and teacher unions than to zero in on the real problems of public education: inadequate and inequitably distributed funding and our society’s failure to deal with the scourge of poverty and its concomitants.
As for teacher unions, without them the number of people qualified and willing to teach would shrink immeasurably.
Edd Doerr
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