STUPID LAW

Jeb Bush's daughter has a drug conviction, but thanks to her family, she
doesn't need financial assistance. The law that denies federal financial
assistance for higher education to drug convicts doesn't restrict all of
them as much as it restricts the poor ones ("One lousy message," April 14).

I understand that the law is trying to discourage convicted drug offenders
from using student loan money for drugs, but this is not the way to do it.
I am not liberal, and I hate watching politicians blame each other for
their ideologies. Pathetic finger-pointing is all that it is.

We need to solve this problem, and banning convicted drug users from
getting an education is despicable. Stop ignoring drug use and abuse and
start dealing with it.

This is the message I get: It may not be the drugs that are making a
convicted drug offender stupid, but the law.

Gene Laratonda, Leechburg