Shorter sessions
Regarding the editorial “Shorter sessions should be routine” (Feb. 3):
More importantly, shorter sessions would provide less time to do damage.
The Texas Legislature meets once every two years, for 140 days. Texas’ population is 10 times that of Mississippi’s. Its budget is about six times that of Mississippi’s, and 15 times that of Mississippi’s actual revenues before federal subsidies. Texas’ annual surplus, deposited into its “rainy day fund,” is larger than Mississippi’s total revenue before the infusion of federal dollars.
Texas’ health care, education, social services and legal systems are some of the most archaic and oppressive in the nation. Imagine how much worse it could be if the “good ol’ boys” were given more time to mess things up.
The lesson here is “damage control.”
John Galt Redux
Megadeal
The governor of Mississippi is from Moorhead. Don’t we have senators and representatives from the Delta who are supposed to be representing the Delta?
Why are all the industries and jobs going to all other places? Who’s working for the Delta? Did we elect the wrong people to represent us Deltans?
Just Sayin
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That deal our politicians worked sounds like the cow-killing plant and the Kemper plant deal. Sounds like the old pigeon drop scheme. Wonder if the contract was written by a Nigerian prince who keeps writing me?
John Hey, M.D.
Greenwood
Confederate statues
Regarding an article by The Associated Press (“Judge rules against opponents of Confederate statue removal,” Feb. 5):
Some of the statues in question are genuine, unique, one-of-a-kind works of art.
If they are to be removed, I hope that they can be taken down without being destroyed and be placed on private property or in a museum.
reddrover
