To the editor:

How could the J-W assign any other headline than “Unbelievably lame and stupid” to the story regarding the proposed “deal” to reopen the SRS office? Let me define how Chairman Flory and Mayor Cromwell must have discussed their buying into this scam.

Lame: Let’s not only let Brownback off the hook for his Legislature-defying decision, let’s abet in his overarching attack on women, the middle class and the working poor and look like heroes for “saving” the SRS office. We can cut other services to these people later and use our hero status in future campaigns as no one will remember the details!

Stupid: $450k over two years? No problem. We’ll cut food, health and other programs for the powerless (see above) next year. And if that gets sticky, we’ll take it from those fat-cat, overpaid city/county workers, school teachers and their staff! We don’t need to maintain our infrastructure, educate our children or pay a reasonable (benefit inclusive) wage for that work.

There would be plenty of money to fund SRS statewide if Brownback wouldn’t use state money, for example, for his fundamentalist-directed attempt to eliminate our legal right to abortion.

For 17 years I’ve been deluding myself that my community doesn’t elect these kind of right-wing idiots. My daughter is one year from kindergarten. Amid this economy, my family is searching for a home where we don’t need to deal with this nonsense, much less worry about whether or not evolution is taught. What’s the matter with Kansas?