Kinder Hoping Joplin Families Have Less Money in Their Paychecks

This just in: Ideological conservatives are willing to use natural disasters without shame to advance their ideological agendas.

Workers already saw their homes destroyed in Joplin. And now Peter Kinder, Rep. Bill White and Rep. Charlie Davis  want them to suffer again by slashing their take-home checks as they rebuild. With cynical talking points in hand, Kinder warned yesterday that some displaced Joplin families won't have housing if he and his donors don't get their way with the Missouri Housing Development Commission. And at least one corporate executive says his projects might be less tornado resistant if he isn't allowed to pay his already-struggling workers less money.

Reducing Joplin families' take-home pay does not help the community recover, and Kinder's cynical work to help owners of construction corporations make more money on the disaster is just gross.