America is About to Lose One of Its Best Public Resource: Public Libraries

[hollysmom]

27. don't forget this is a state that has closed

offices for applications for food stamps and social security and what ever else aid is needed and they are pointing people to go to the libraries to apply. In that case alone they need to pay the libraries for their services. In state without mass transportation, people are not as mobile. Until there is free WIFI and free smart phones for all, they need these livbraries, although our local library has a ton of services, besides the social one where book clubs meet as well as renting video and DVD and CDs and e-books as well, this is where the free tax help works and where there are tutoring for children with reading issues as well as where authors come to do readings of their books since the demise of small book stores and where the bridge and knitting clubs meet and where there is help training people with computer skills both professional and just basic. Libraries are the only free computer access most towns have.
On the other hand, this is a republican wet dream, a drop in food stamp and welfare aid demand. People dying in the street from ill health and hunger, and increase in crime to feed your family to justify the cost of all those new prisons - more profit for friends.