Letters to the editor — election 2008

GOP doesn't care about tight economy

How much is enough? Sen. John McCain and his buddies have no idea the total hell most Americans have to endure due in part to Republicans' unbridled greed over the past eight years.

Once again, how much is enough? Can't they leave the working man some scraps on the table? Do Republicans have to take it all just because they can? Where is their compassion?

ERIK LAZDINS, Boise

Choose a leader who can fix things

I am only a 16-year-old teenager living in Boise. It just seems odd to me that people can be so thick-headed in this whole Republican pride nonsense. How can you vote for someone who does not even know how many houses he owns, or who nukes before he speaks? Your decision in this election decides the fate of America for the next four years.

Why choose someone like Bush, who ran this country into the ground, when you can choose someone who can fix things? That is what I want to know.

JORDAN DUGMORE, Boise

Spending cuts are the real solution to deficit

I have listened to Obama and read the letters of his supporters in the paper. I must point out a couple of things. First, every working American or retiree who has a pension plan, 401(k), annuity or other investment is an owner of the so-called "evil" corporations. The profits of the corporations belong to the owners.

The Democratic plan of punitive extra taxes on the profits of the corporations really takes away the property of the working and retired poor and middle classes. The result of the Democratic plans would be to hurt the working class and retirees. Retirees will see their retirement income decrease, all to fund more programs that sound good but don't really help anyone.

Yet we still have Obama supporters writing to the editor claiming that stealing from those who work and save for retirement will somehow make us all better off. This is the same bad plan that destroyed the economy of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The real solution to the budget deficit is reduced government spending, not higher taxes. John McCain has never taken an earmark and has consistently worked for lower government spending.

JIM RICE, Caldwell

Fewer freedoms? That sounds familiar

As I read Matt Knight's letter regarding Obama's endorsement by a group that supports doing away with our Constitution and taking away our personal freedoms, I was surprised. I was actually quite amazed to learn that Bush/Cheney and the Republican Party were backing Obama. I was sure they were behind McCain's candidacy, so we could be assured of at least four more years of the same failed policies.

I guess Obama would really enjoy the support though, even if he accepted it in secrecy while wearing his American flag pin on his lapel and a G.W. Bush mask.

TOM EDGAR, Boise