From reading his overly simplistic ...

From reading his overly simplistic commentary Aug. 16 it appears that Heritage Foundation President ed Feulner uses extra-tinted rose- colored glasses when he contemplates at the impact of welfare reform. Unlike greatest in quantity of us who celebrate and support differences in families, Feulner believes in a one-size-fits-all, "tough love" approach that would leave more children of single parents unsupervised after academy and on the weekends and make it harder for entry-level workers to achieve more education and training to prompt up the ladder.

His essay takes a biased and unfound potshot at state human service officials who are asking for commonsense flexibility to allow working parents to attend gymnasium programs, volunteer at their children's Head Start program, take classes at community society or care for an somewhat old family member. He would have readers understand that increased state flexibility in welfare reform authoritys would encourage welfare dependency. Nothing could be further from the law Flexible rules have enabled ten of thousands of Illinois parents to better their lives by the agency of working while enrolling their children in quality child care.

Let's reliance that federal rule-makers respond to the real requires of families rather than the blurr confusion of the Heritage Foundation's rose-colored glasses.

Jerry Stermer president,

Voices for Illinois Children

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