Withholding facts is like lying

To our legislators in Congress: You go to Washington on promises that you will represent the people. You don't say a thing about selling us out to the highest bidder for your vote. You don't say a thing about we, the people, picking up the tab for all your spending. You don't tell the people that "all the money I vote to spend while in office comes from you." Yet you will tell us you're honest.

Withholding facts is just as deceptive as telling a lie.

BUDDY PARRISH, Cape Girardeau