Letters

This is in response to last week’s letter to the editor:

Higdon helps make Kentucky ‘open for business’
The Kentucky Chamber applauds Senate Majority Whip Jimmy Higdon on his leadership to make right-to-work legislation a reality during the first week of the 2017 General Assembly, ensuring Kentucky is a state where businesses want to locate.  

To say that your recent vote to approve for Right to Work and prevailing wage legislation is disheartening would be an understatement. Your vote was a figurative slap in the face of the hard working people you have sworn to represent. Instead of standing up for the men and women of your district, and state, you chose to follow party lines. It’s as if you forgot how many in your district work at union shops. Ones like the distilleries, Ford, G.E. and construction companies.

Remember way back in 2009 when the American auto industry was about to go belly up? Obama and the Democrats made a decision to intervene with federal assistance and save hundreds of thousands of jobs, an entire industry, and the global economy from collapse!
And Republicans called it "socialism.” So now that Trump has saved 1,000 jobs in Indiana, Trump and Republicans are taking a big victory lap. Funny thing: No one in the Republican Party is complaining about government overreach or calling it socialism.