LETTERS: Clinton the only solution in 2016

The top 1 percent of income earners in the U.S. population share an overwhelming majority of the nation’s wealth. The 1 percent can be further divided into good citizens and bad ones. Good ones pay their fair share of taxes without complaint and return some of their wealth through charitable foundations. George Soros, one of the good ones, spent a fortune on advertising space warning against voting a second term for President George W. Bush.

Unfortunately, Mr. Bush had more billionaires on his side because he promised to protect their income tax loopholes. Rich Republicans outspent Mr. Soros, through PACs (which we are trying to outlaw) and Fox News.

As a result, we are now faced with a war Mr. Bush led us into, financed with money borrowed from communist China, a former enemy to whom we are now deeply in debt. Even worse, the war he started by sending U.S. troops into Iraq is mushrooming throughout the Middle East and making the U.S. the main target of terrorists.

The only way to battle this situation is to vote for Hillary Clinton in the next election. President Barack Obama gave her perfect training for the job as his secretary of state.

Dwight Eisenhower was a great president and a Republican. But he was a progressive liberal who spent millions on the country’s infrastructure, including an interstate highway system. Today’s Republicans are traitors to the Eisenhower legacy of international cooperation, peace and prosperity. They are blocking recovery of the nation’s middle class.

Paul Gwin

Las Vegas

Smith on Trump

While I’m not a Donald Trump guy, I found it interesting that John L. Smith would irritate a large percentage of Review-Journal readers with his scathing attack on Mr. Trump’s followers (“Trump supporters just as thin-skinned,” Sunday Review-Journal). It’s certainly not lost on readers that Mr. Smith ripped them for being thin-skinned, yet fired off a column immediately after he received criticism. How rich.

Maybe a Las Vegas sportsbook could place a line on the day Mr. Smith gets his pink slip for being childish, petulant and just played out. I will set March 15 as the day, and I’ll take the under.

Mike Morgan

Las Vegas

Dumping on Donald

John L. Smith has finally gone on tilt with possibly his worst commentary ever, vilifying Donald Trump in every way imaginable (“Trump putting on huge act as conservative,” Feb. 23 Review-Journal). There was no voice of reason here, only pure vitriol.

Mr. Smith, the landscape is changing for the political class and the media that feed off of it. Clearly, the voters don’t care about endorsements from other politicians and don’t care about you or the babbling TV analysts trying to make the news by telling us what we “really” saw and what to think.

The good news for you is that when Mr. Trump gets elected, you will have plenty of fodder for your column.

Don Brady

Henderson