Dear Bill Bennett:

Back in the good old days, when I was in the Army, I had a drill sergeant who would say to us from time to time "Son, reach down between your thighs. Grab hold of your ears, and jerk your head …" Well, you get the idea.

Bennett, a sometimes poster boy for the conservatives in this country, who was at one time this country's education czar, inserted his foot directly into his mouth recently while trying to make a point about abortion. If he had said, "You could reduce the crime rate in this country by aborting all fetuses of white people," he probably could have gotten away with his rediculous dialectic.

However, Bill made a connection with the fact that our nation's prison inmate population is disproportionately African American. This kind of simple minded thinking is typical of the conservatives in our country. You would think that conservatives would take their time and reason through their arguments. Wrong.

To be a conservative means that you want to conserve something. What is it that the conservatives in the U. S. want to conserve? Uh, the status quo? Let's keep poor people poor, working people working for less, and all the money and power in our own hands.