Letters to the editor

Obama Elected To Help

Americans elected Barack Obama president instead of John McCain because we need jobs, not more tax cuts for the wealthy. Trickle-down economics crashed with the stock market.

Investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency will do more to create jobs, lower gas prices, reduce electric bills and help with climate change than putting an oil well or a nuclear plant in everyone's yard. It is time for Congress to serve the will of the people instead of wealthy and powerful cooperations. We need the Economic Recovery Act.

RON KUHLER

Lutz

Republicans' Demise

The moment President Barack Obama was sworn in I realized I was watching the demise of the Republican Party and the American dream. With the enormous power of his loyal apostles in the press and the "what's in it for me" crowd, including a rubber-stamp majority in Congress, Obama will serve at least three terms in the White House, possibly a fourth term.

I suspect that a Republican will never again occupy the Oval Office. Obama may well transform the U.S.A. into the U.S.S.A, the United Socialist States of America.

TONY D'ANDREA

Largo

Make Parents Pay

Now we hear that the powers that be want to raise our property taxes again to fund education. Well, here is one for them: Make the people who have kids in school pay it.

Those of us who have no kids in school are still paying for nothing. And where is all that lottery money going? Not for what we were told: education.

The government has billions of dollars to bail out banks that were run into the ground by idiot management, and all they have to offer us is higher taxes. Reminds me of the old Beatles song "Tax Man."

Shame on all of you who sit in your plush offices and go home to your million-dollar homes at our expense

RAYMOND GREENLEE

Riverview

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