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Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:37 PM

HAWVER: ‘Feeling’ our pain is getting old

By MARTIN HAWVER, At the Rail

The Kansas Legislature has wasted more than 10 percent of the days of its annual 90-day session looking around for ways to “feel your pain” about the sour economy.

How? By trying to find some way to cut legislative salaries to win empathy, to show legislators understand losing a job or seeing a pay cut is painful. That’s supposed to make voters feel better, somehow.

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