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Writer, process designer, analyst, and democrat. My interests in recent years include working on improving election transparency by moving voting to all paper ballots and activism on the issue of truth about what happened on 9/11.
Friday, May 21, 2021 Governing by Lazy AnarchistsSHARE
This letter to the editor in the St. Louis Post Dispatch laments the Missouri legislature's latest failure to expand Medicaid even though the state's voters approved it and there is already sufficient revenue from taxes to pay for it. It points to a GOP reliance on a strict anti-government stance and a fervent belief that markets can do the governing for them as nothing more than a way to avoid doing the hard work of governing.