Jerry Miskulin – 2/25/09

This page was last updated on February 27, 2009.

Welfare programs still needed today; Jerry Miskulin; Beaver County Times; February 25, 2009.

I encourage you to review Mr. Miskulin’s body of work in the archives. Mr. Miskulin has written at least 20 letters since 2004 (I didn’t critique all of them.). Most (all?) are illogical (not just wrong) and full of falsehoods. In his last letter, Mr. Miskulin asserted, “Republicans are just for Republicans and not for the country.”

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“I find it funny that many in Congress treat welfare and food stamps with such disdain.

“Without knowing the historical significance of these programs, they laugh at what is and was a lifeline to millions.

“Welfare and food stamps didn’t drag people down, as many would say, but buoyed up the unfortunate until they could learn to swim.”

[RWC] Note Mr. Miskulin didn’t provide any data to support this assertion.

“Welfare and food stamps were not an ideological solution to a social problem but rather a pragmatic one.”

[RWC] Is Mr. Miskulin serious? The left’s “ideological solution” to all perceived problems – either real or imagined – is to confiscate paychecks from people who earn them so they can be redistributed. This redistribution makes the “beneficiaries” dependent on government, a lefty ideological goal.

“In the class-conscious world in which we live, maybe their time has come once again.”

[RWC] When Mr. Miskulin writes about “the class-conscious world in which we live,” he’s engaging in projection. Lefties are the people who tend to see people as members of classes, groups, et cetera. Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to view people as individuals.

“[M]aybe their time has come once again?” When did “welfare and food stamps” ever leave?