Readers views: Misleading stories + moving federal agencies

Misleading story?

Your article about the “booming economy” is totally misleading.

It is not a “booming economy” when real wages are lower than in 1973, nearly 80% live paycheck to paycheck, 62% of jobs don’t support a middle class life, some work two and three jobs to pay rent and bills, 40 million Americans are either poor or low-income and half of older Americans have no retirement savings.

Your article is very misleading. I always was taught that responsible journalism meant being objective, not obviously partisan. Although I suppose with the last Mississippi election, you are just pandering to what you call your constituency.

Alva Lynn Malley Green

Gulfport

A good idea?

Write your Mississippi Congressional leaders to support a new bill.

Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., introduced a bill Oct. 23 that would move about 90 percent of the workforce at the headquarters for 10 federal agencies to other states around the country and pop the “bubble” of D.C. federal employment.

Under the proposal, the Department of Agriculture would move to Missouri, Commerce to Pennsylvania, Education to Tennessee, Energy to Kentucky, Health and Human Services to Indiana, Housing and Urban Development to Ohio, Interior to New Mexico, Labor to West Virginia, Transportation to Michigan and Veterans Affairs to South Carolina.

The HIRE Act will move policymakers directly into the communities they serve, creating thousands of jobs for local communities and saving taxpayers billions of dollars along the way.

The bill was inspired by the administration to move the Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture to Kansas City and to move the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said that the departures resulting from a planned USDA research agency relocation gets rid of employees when they can’t be fired and save billions. A TV news report said the Department of Education had over 300 who made over $100,000 a year, more than 2.5 times that made by teachers in Mississippi

Bring some federal agencies to Mississippi and drain the swamp. Write your Mississippi Congressional leaders.

Richard Eckert Sr.

Ocean Springs

Making news

I am always seeing on the news and internet where some actor or singer gave a big tip to a waitress — like $800 or $1,000.

That should not be news because; that is like $2 to the average person.

Actors & singers make tons of money. What would be news would be if an average working person would leave a big tip. And by average person I do not mean doctor, lawyer, politician or professional sports person.

Cecil Craft

Carriere

Too much wealth

The wealth that the Earth has to offer can be made available to end poverty on Earth.

The gold, the precious jewels can be mined for the elimination of the extremes of wealth and poverty on Earth. The resources to mind these valuable minerals are a solution to the extremes of wealth and poverty.

There is no need to have people living in destitution. The need is for restoration and balance of the human population on Earth. Each human on Earth must have a place to live, with food to consume and education, to be employed for a healthy economy.

Don’t say it can’t be done. No, say it must be done. The elimination of the extremes of wealth and poverty is a divine directive and a must action for everyone including the ones with means.

Miguel Nicholson

Gulfport