State Budget Deadlock
Let me see if I have this right: Gov. Wilson will risk the lives of the elderly, the disabled and children in order to make a political point with the Legislature over the budget crisis. I wonder, would he dare to be so cavalier if the people depending on oxygen treatment, home health care and emergency medical treatment were his own wife, parents or children?
Have you no sense of shame? Have you no sense of decency?
ARLINE WILLIAMS
Hollywood
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