Harry Reid’s in it for himself and his family
To the editor:
When are Nevadans going to stop letting Sen. Harry Reid bully us?
On Nov. 5, you reported Henderson was hiring a new city attorney, and that Sen. Reid’s son Josh was a finalist. My first thought was to feel sorry for interim City Attorney Christine Guerci-Nyhus, because she had no chance.
The last paragraph in Jane Ann Morrison’s Monday column said it all: “If they choose the more experienced Guerci-Nyhus, though, they face the wrath of Harry. And believe me, he never forgets a slight.”
It’s plain wrong to hire someone because it’s politically smart to do so over someone who has the experience necessary. But in Sen. Reid’s world, what else is new?
I said before the 2010 election that if people were stupid enough to re-elect Sen. Reid we’d deserve what we got, and that is coming true. Thanks to Sen. Reid and the Democrats, Nevada is first in the nation in unemployment, foreclosures and high school dropouts.
Is this where we chant, “We’re number one”?
Kathleen M. Stone
Pahrump
Balanced budget
To the editor:
A bill proposing a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States was defeated Thursday 261-165 — a clear majority supporting it, but well short of the 290 votes needed to amend the Constitution. It was defeated because only 25 Democratic representatives supported it (236 Republican representatives also supported it), whereas 161 Democratic representatives and four Republican representatives voted against the bill.
It is clear that the overwhelming majority of Democratic representatives — including Nevada’s Shelley Berkley — do not believe that Congress should be expected to abide by the wishes of the American people and operate the national government on a balanced budget, like most of us do with our families. Let it be known that Nevada’s two Republican representatives — Joe Heck and Mark Amodei, as well as most Republican representatives — voted in favor of the bill to require the Congress to have a balanced budget and stop running up large deficits.
I will never believe another Democratic politician who campaigns promising to be a good steward of the people’s money. Their actions speak louder than their words.
S.G. Hayes Sr.
Las Vegas
Not so super
To the editor:
Super committee, schmupercommittee!
Some of the same congressional representatives who long ago should have made some tough decisions and compromises to improve our miserable economy are now banded together with the new media title of “super.” Wow! Very impressive!
So now they are super-unable to make decisions they were paid to make before they became super. How, for goodness sakes, can any sensible person take them seriously?
AL CIRICILLO
LAS VEGAS
Helping the rich
To the editor:
Why is it that every time the GOP talks about making changes to the tax code, it always decreases the top tax bracket, which by the way is the only bracket shown to have an increased net income these past four years? As always, it places the burden on what’s left of the middle class.
I apologize, but I wonder if the GOP leadership even lives in the same world we do.
Let’s vote them all out and start anew. At least it would take some time before they became corrupt.
Do they really think we are that stupid?
Gary Cross
Las Vegas
Tea Party vs. Occupy
To the editor:
Well, we finally have a contrasting movement to compare the Tea Party to: Occupy Wall Street. Let’s compare the two.
Tea Party: consists mostly of people who stage peaceful rallies, are against overspending, carry American flags, pick up their trash, have had very few or no arrests and claim patriotism. How are they portrayed by the left and the mainstream media? A bunch of white, bigoted, extremist, anti-government racists.
Occupy Wall Street consists of people who trash public areas, block ports, break windows, burn cars, proclaim they hate capitalism and have to be guarded by police in riot gear, and have had hundreds of their members arrested by police. How have they been commented on by the left and the mainstream media? The silence is deafening.
B. DARLING
HENDERSON
Target incumbents
To the editor:
The Occupy Wall Street movement doesn’t seem to have a focused objective. The “99 percent” appear to be angry because other people are making money and they aren’t. That’s not an objective — that’s just envy.
The “99 percent” should focus on a real objective, and I have a suggestion: Our Congress has done such an incredibly terrible job that none of them should be re-elected. Occupy Wall Street should focus all of its energy on defeating every incumbent who is up for re-election. None deserve it. The gridlock in Congress is sinking our nation.
If Occupy Wall Street could simply focus on defeating every incumbent, and if the group were successful, the country would be better off. Clearly, any idiot off the street could do a better job than any of the current members of Congress.
David Adams
Las Vegas
