Living Wage Proposal

* Re “Split Board Approves Study of Living Wage,” Dec. 20.

Not intending to tell you how to write news articles, we nevertheless would like very much for you to get it straight.

Your quote about the tune sung by the supporters of the Living Wage proposal before the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, in spite of the mass distribution of the lyrics at the meeting site, indicates that you may have a bias.

There’s a hell of a difference between your “give us the dough” and “share the dough.”

HANK LACAYO

Oxnard

Editor’s note: The writer is president of El Concilio del Condado de Ventura. Here are the lyrics in question, sung to the tune of “Let It Snow”:

While the minimum wage is frightful

For the wealthy life’s delightful

Tell those millionaire CEOs

Share the dough, share the dough, share the dough

The battle around us rages

As we fight for living wages

And we want to get what we’re owed

Share the dough, share the dough, share the dough

We leave families home at night

Working two jobs is the norm

And we know that it’s just not right

This system needs some reform

The economy’s globalizing

In the streets we’re organizing

And we’re making our movement grow

Share the dough, share the dough, share the dough

Share the dough, share the dough, share the dough