Apparently, expressing displeasure with election results labels people “right wing radicals.” A lot of victorious politicians say that elections have consequences and that their ideas and the implementation of their policies are what voters wanted done. I suppose that is true to some extent, but unfortunately, those consequences can have dire results to some voters who did not vote for them.

No political party lost the recent Supreme Court ruling on health care, we ALL lost. When the entire Affordable Health Care Act is fully implemented, just about everyone who doesn’t have the money to purchase health insurance will be fined, and that fine will increase each year until I would suppose those people have had their entire personal belongings confiscated by the IRS, since it is the IRS that will be enforcing the health care law and has been hiring agents at a record pace to do so.

Bin Laden was “taken out” using the very mechanisms and policies put into place by George Bush, so we can blame W. for that too. It must have taken a brave soul to push that button. Saving GM cost every single common stock owner their stock and gave the UAW a 25% ownership in the company. I would LOVE to be in the room during union negotiations after that one.

I was a member of two different unions in my past life and I just wonder, how does someone negotiate with themselves? GM was ready to give the UAW $50 billion to take over their health insurance program which likely would have NOT necessitated the bailout to the tune of billions of taxpayers’ dollars that will probably never been seen again even as the last Treasury Secretary said that the government would start selling its GM shares, at a loss, I might add.

There is considerable paranoia about guns being seized through registrations lists, but then again not having a gun could be like not having air to breathe — no big deal until you need it. AND, I say this to Jimmy Pappas, “keep those letters coming.” I may not agree with some of his points of view as he writes interesting stuff, but the debate is stimulating and I DO enjoy reading the Editor’s page!

PAUL CIRUSO

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