We now have a “real” unemployment rate of about 17 percent. No one has proposed real ways to reduce this. Some now say this will be the new typical unemployment rate. We have soaring oil and gasoline prices, even though there is a glut of oil and refineries are even being shut down due to low demand. The target price of oil has been set at $85 per barrel and target price of gasoline at $3.50 per gallon.
Health care costs are soaring and no one has proposed ways to contain or reduce the “real” reasons for the increases. Billions of dollars were given to banks and investment companies, but much of this money was used to buy other banks, invest in the stock market or just to help their bottom line. Record amounts of money is being spent by lobbyists for the health care industry, oil industry, banking industry and most other major industries. This means record political contributions for our members of Congress and their parties.
I just don’t understand how this country can be in such a mess, when we have the best president and Congress money can buy. Remember this in November 2010.
Denny Beltz
Anderson
Letters
Letter: This country is in a ‘real’ predicament
No one has proposed a real way to reduce unemployment
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Letter: Union attitude must prevail for recovery
Any recovery for the middle class, in the recovery of our economy, will be led by the recovery of the union attitude in America. Nothing else.
- Letter: Founding fathers were humanists
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Letter: Lutz not representing the working class
I feel bad that Rep. Lutz (R) is sad, because Democrats at the Statehouse are representing the working class people of Indiana. While he is representing big business.
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Viewpoint:: Washington must wake up to missile threat
Three years after President Obama opened an outstretched hand to Iran and attempted to reset relations with Russia, the former has restarted its drive to build nuclear weapons including recent missile testing and saber rattling while the latter has dropped its diplomatic relations to Cold War temperatures.
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Letter: Consumer-driven economy will pay off debt
To save America some money — by acclimation of course — let’s not have a presidential election in 2012. We already have a good president who will do his best to kill all Republican bills (DOA) and, consequently, create more good-paying jobs in the $30 per hour range.
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Letter: Gingrich cashes in on political amnesia
Rasmussen says that Romney has flattened nationally. Why?
Two reasons seem to tell the tale. Gingrich has shown that he will fight, and Romney is a Mormon, believed to be a “cult” by a majority of evangelicals. -
Letter: Hiring Winkler not wise spending
As a taxpayer I want to know that my taxes are being spent wisely. Hiring Greg Winkler at a salary of $126,000 is not wise spending.
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Letter: Bill of Rights being nullified by new law
President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year’s Eve. I doubt many Americans noticed its implications because they do not yet comprehend the big picture. This law, coupled with the Patriot Act, is paving the way for America’s direction toward tyranny.
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Letter: $14 trillion debt started by previous president
I’m a proud atheist who’s lucky enough to know the difference between fact and fantasy.
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Letter: Economy putting people in the gutters
We are now getting the results of putting people in the gutters. We need to take a second look at our government and its policies. It’s not working.
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Letter: Union attitude must prevail for recovery
