Do good families not matter?

THE EDITOR: It is with the greatest sadness that I see some 9,000 workers put on the bread line with hardly a peep from the wider trade union movement and religious bodies. Nine thousand workers mean nine thousand families. Do they not matter? How is it that experts keep linking poverty to our horrible crime situation and yet our authorities, economic, moral and political allow 9,000 more to join the fray? Are we so shortsighted that we cannot foresee the consequences of this? Or is that we really do not care? Why is it the government moved to save hundreds at TCL and hurried to give a licence to I 95.5 to save hundreds of jobs, but makes no attempt to save thousands? Let every one draw their own honest conclusions. My sympathies and best wishes to the 9,000 and families. I hope you will see the light at the end of the tunnel even if neither the government nor the religious groups are willing to light a candle for you.

DENISE KOO
Petit Valley