Dear Editor,

Don't you just love it, when people are greedy or do something they shouldn't, they blame it on the people who are going to have to ultimately pay the price?

For instance, the people in Washington have been looting the Social Security System money for decades. They have put their fingers in the pie and pulled out plums many times over, but now that it is the time to return the money to those who worked for the past thirty and forty years, guess what? These people are being blamed for being too many, they are being told they aren't entitled, they aren't entitled to health care, and they aren't entitled to pensions. Well who entitled the people in Washington to rob the Social Security System funds, and to steal money from their neighbors? Who entitled them to mismanage the Social Security System and not pay a price? Have they been fired? Have they gone to jail? Have they had to do anything other than whine about the people who entrusted their money to them for safe-keeping? No!

Now the American people are watching their government bail out those who mismanaged businesses, those people who are walking away with enormous pensions and not paying for their lack of responsibility.

What I want to know, is why do they feel entitled to all their millions in severance pay, pensions and bonuses, for doing a lousy job? Why should our government bail out large corporations, but spit on the average American citizen? What right do they have in stealing money out of their neighbor's pockets? In an age of record-setting profits, who is being lied to? What happened to all the record profits? Was that all a lie to the American people, or was it the truth?

When the average American citizen is struggling for survival, those large corporations were rubbing it into the faces of Joe Citizen how much money they were hauling in. No conscience there, now the CEOs are running off with the loot and leaving Joe Citizen to pay the bill. I think these people should be tarred and feathered, and run out of our country. They are not loyal American citizens. They are greed driven, without conscience or restraint.

You can believe I am not the only American citizen, who believes our country has been taken over by criminals, who don't care what happens to our country. The United States of America doesn't matter to them. They prefer our great country to be in the sewer with the rest of the third world countries. They don't need American citizens to be consumers, they have a whole open globe to tyrannize.

Just think about who you want in Washington. More good old boys? More lobbyist controlled puppets? More of the same? Think about it.

Valerie Gamblin,
Cleveland, TN


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