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Letter: Republicans work against public good
Op-Ed · February 16, 2017


Iowa Republican legislators are attempting to gut working people’s ability to join together to collectively market their only asset — their human toil.


And while doing this to working people, Republicans greatly pamper the hoarders of the nation’s wealth that enjoy doing so via powerful corporations that own Republican politicians and their party.

Republicans pretend to be business-friendly while they actually undermine the business interests of the vast majority of Americans that do the dirty work, heavy lifting, and attention to detail that makes it all add up by daily showing up.

On top of this being disgusting politics, it is also poor economics in terms of workers having adequate disposable and essential income that keeps local commercial establishments able to market the goods and services from which profits can trickle up to corporate interests. This in better place of Republican trickle-down from on high that is but a drought for masses at the bottom of the heap. What goes around comes around and cash flow is the lifeblood of local economies from which all else grows, or it withers on the vine of creeping poverty that rots our inner cities, makes ghost towns of villages, and turns much of rural America into a barren outback.

Republicans propagandize away the fact that each and every one of us is in business for our self and dependent loved ones to secure food, clothing, shelter and enough rest and leisure to keep going and to find it worthwhile to do so. And in insult atop injury to the masses of working Americans, the Republicans have promoted into crushing power one of the biggest freeloaders of them all, Donald Trump.

Sam Osborne

West Branch