To the editor:
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
Not to give away my age, but this was a popular phrase shortly after I graduated from high school about 45 years ago. The slogan was written at that time for an advertising campaign to raise money for African-Americans to attend college, something that was very difficult for them because of the civil rights issues of those times.
Today, we have Walker trying to pass a budget that will affect all of our Wisconsin school kids, from pre-school through college, in times when it should be easier and less costly to get an education that will allow them to get a meaningful job to make a reasonable living wage.
What control does Walker have over the Republican Legislature? They continue to walk lockstep with him even though both their Republican and Democrat constituents are opposed to the budget cuts in this disastrous proposed budget.
We know they don’t care about us, but what about members of their own party? Doesn’t Walker and his party care about their own base?
Perhaps a Republican vice president said it best when he got tongue-tied and tried to quote the famous quote above: “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.”
John E. Durben,
Secretary, Democratic Party Shawano County
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