FDR compassion

To the editor:

It is troubling to hear President Bush continue down the road of extending the tax cuts.

His plan to shrink the deficit cannot rely on cuts to programs for the less-fortunate. It is immoral to give tax breaks to the wealthy while cutting vital food stamp programs to the poor.

I am reminded of a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt as we approach the holiday season:

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

Sounds like something the Christ might have said.

Melinda Morris-Black,

Lawrence