Missouri policy remains to punish struggling families at every opportunity, just as the state abuses its own workers with low pay and depreciating benefits.
September 2021 Missouri Benefit Report
Category: Governance
Lost Sales
Last week I searched the grocery store, without success, for a brand of pretzels I knew had just gone on sale. I asked the nice young man about the pretzels. “Those are on sale this week,” he replied. “We don’t Read More …
Stretched Truths
Don’t believe Missouri state government. They really stretch the truth.
Outsmarting Squirrels?
One afternoon this spring my wife found a Charlie Brown style tomato plant, small and yellow, on sale for $1.00. She replanted it into a nice pot, gave it a great spot on the deck and watered it every day. Read More …
American Con Games
The frail looking white haired woman waited, in the airline’s wheelchair, for pre-boarding for the flight from Houston to St. Louis. She never smiled as the young airline worker took her onto the jet. At Lambert the woman again had Read More …
Squishy Missouri
I would rather be with the people of this town than with the finest people in the world. Mayor Deeb Roxanne, 1987 My wife and I handled my mother-in-law’s grocery shopping this week. Her store began as an A Read More …