Letters to the Editor Aug. 24

Eugene Paslov has joined other Obama apologists who claim he inherited all his problems from Bush. Paslov is shopping the idea that Republicans - who control only one-half of one-third of the federal government, and only since January - caused the current fiscal mess.

It's the new tea party Republicans in Congress who inherited a fiscal mess. They're the ones wiping up after the Democrat-caused loss of the AAA rating the U.S. has had for 94 years.

As Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal says, Democrats created a debt-fueled entitlement-state expansion. How else could this bunch of officials get elected, other than to create dependent groups and buy their votes?

Paslov repeats the "government spending creates prosperity" fiction that has been thoroughly discredited.

Paslov posits that Republicans may just be racists who dislike our black president, but it's Democrat class-warfare hatred that has strangled free-market capitalism with hyper-regulation and environmental hysteria. They demand tax increases on the millionaires and billionaires, who turn out to be small-business $200,000-aires.

Now investors, retirees and pension plans - public and private - are facing ruin in the stock market collapse. Bank savings, at near zero interest, are being eaten by inflation.

Recently Rush Limbaugh read to his listeners a seven-page compilation of newspaper headlines containing the words "Obama blames." What else would you expect from a political party that is single-mindedly focused on acquiring political power?

Lynn Muzzy

Minden

As a voter, I am irked by political rhetoric. I have decided that I will not vote for a candidate who uses the word "fight," not even once. In media commercials and interviews, the always-aggressive, always-right candidate vows to fight for this or that. I have not heard a candidate vow to work toward a solution to problems in decades.

Is confrontational skill the sole criterion for a political leadership job? Is aggressive confrontation the way to a more promising future? Our great country is circling the drain while our leaders mimic spoiled brats on the playground.

So, good people, stop fighting and start working to find solutions.

I urge all who read this to take the "fight" out of campaigning by declining to vote for the fighters and work for those who compromise.

Dan Gage

Roswell, N.M.

The news media are reporting that a low turnout is expected for the special election on Sept. 13 for the seat in Congressional District 2.

Republicans are urged to keep CD2 Republican by getting themselves to the booth and voting for Mark Amodei.

The benefit of voting for Amodei is that he will assure CD2 the best political representation. He will focus strictly on the interests of his CD2 constituency.

If Kate Marshall is elected, it is guaranteed that she will sacrifice the interest of CD2 to the political objectives of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi machine.

Keep CD2 Republican. Vote for Mark Amodei.

Orlis and Anita Trone

Fernley

A couple of years ago, I was concerned that my home's assessed value had plummeted, but my property taxes were the same or higher, so I emailed my two legislative representatives, Mark Amodei and Tom Grady.

Mr. Grady replied, saying the state government was in a tough spot. Mr. Amodei stiffed me.

Later, I found out these two gentlemen had been party to special legislation that kept these rates high to protect their special interests. Now Mr. Amodei wants us to send him to Washington to fight for lower taxes.

Give me a break. Perhaps the leopard can change his spots.

Dan Knott

Dayton