Republicans are to blame for this mess
Our country is adrift in a recession I call a depression. Lack of eight years of oversight has crumbled our economy as corporations were allowed to set policy and greedily take huge profits at taxpayers' expense.
Last fall, Democrats tried to appropriate money to get a start on the swine flu issue. Republicans, the party of NO, said "No!" And Bush, "I'll veto it!"
Many have died as $4 trillion has been spent on a lie in Iraq ($12,307 per every man, woman and child). Trillions of dollars have migrated from working people to the rich through uncontrolled war profits, the manipulation of the stock market, health insurance premiums and energy policies written in Cheney's office by energy companies.
Republicans have sold us out everywhere. The means don't matter. The result does. More than $700 billion was asked for by Bush and Paulsen and is being blamed on President Obama. Why? Why do Otsego Republican reps insist they get Cadillac family health insurance for life if they serve five years?
Democrats respect workers and, working alone, helped them save for later years through Social Security and Medicare. Republicans took a surplus to an $11 trillion deficit! Surprisingly, many workers vote Republican, thus hurting workers.
Democrats want strong defense, honesty, respect for workers, a government of the people (NOT CORPORATIONS), and a balanced budget.
Oh, the monies appropriated to help homeowners in trouble and businesses needing quick loans _ the banks used it to invest in your cheap stocks. Thanks, taxpayers!
What do you stand for?
Charles Pierce
Otego
There is no Nobel in mathematics
I liked the Mike Luckovich cartoon you ran on your editorial page on Oct. 14. It was about Obama getting a Nobel Peace Prize being a bit premature. The cartoon likened it to his 8-year-old daughter, Sasha, winning a Nobel Prize for mathematics.
Although I like President Obama, I can see the humor in the cartoon. But as apropos as the comparison is, as a fan of mathematics, I have to point out that there is no Nobel Prize in mathematics.
As hard to believe as that is, it is true. Although the mathematician Bertrand Russell won a Nobel Prize in 1950, it was for literature, not math.
Yes, the Nobel Committee was pretty weird this year, but at least they didn't try to give a Literature Prize to George Bush, let alone a Peace Prize.
Brian Foley
Otego
Print this story
E-mail this story
