Local media should focus on our own poor

By Gregg Romero Wendorf

When it comes to being a bleeding heart, count me in – I help the down-and-out whenever I can. Only difference between me and most bleeding hearts is that I actually have a thinking brain. Okay, some would argue the point, but so be it.
I’m neither a member of the Republican or the Democratic Party. Rather, I’m a member of the Common Sense Party. Sadly, the French writer/philosopher Voltaire was right when he famously said, “Common sense isn’t so common.” With each passing generation, it seems that a lesser percentage of the population possess it.
You know what I find sickening? Stories in the local media about the poor immigrants “fleeing the violence and poverty” in Central America. I see too many news reporters tripping over themselves as they race to interview the next

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