Letters to the editor

I don't know why I do it, but I do it almost everyday: I read the letters to the editor in our local paper, the Reno Gazette-Journal. Today I had to set it aside for a while and read one letter at a time. There were a few that I, have you guessed? disagree with.

Letter #1
So, this woman thanks Tea Party people and town hall people for causing her and others who are under 65 to lose health insurance.

What is that? They are real people who care about this country.
Open your ears! Everyone wants reform - some of us don't want it to bankrupt the country. Some of us would like to have something to say about how it happens. I disagree with the titles this person has applied to those folks who continue to demonstrate on this unhappy woman's behalf, protecting her rights and future.
Very short-sighted and uninformed.

Then she thanks the blue-dog democrats for only wanting to get re-elected?

What did they do? The freaking bills passed!

Then, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin for spreading false information so that the "uninformed" would be so scared they would live on every word they spoke.

How did she determine that they "spread false info?" From where I sit, everything I heard I found to be truthful. Perhaps their words weren't in agreement with her false assumptions?

Then, whoever she refers to as the "I have mine so the hell with you" folks, so Obama can't get anything done.

What? We should allow this President to bankrupt this country so she can have... what? Perhaps working for it? Just sayin..

Mr. Bush gets thanked for giving all the tax breaks to big business so they would create jobs, but didn't.

WHAT? Who helped to create the 15 million jobs that have been lost in the last two years? One of those years that the congress was controlled by Democrats and one where the Presidency was also held by a Democrat. What is she thinking?

She jumps on both Democrats and Republicans for helping China so they can take all of our jobs and own us.

She wants it both ways. She wants to be liberal when it suits her and provides what she wants and switches to conservative when it is more convenient.

Her last hurrah is a shot at big business for taking their jobs to China so they can make a huge profit.

Who... I ask WHO? benefits when companies make profits? Hey, lady, have you ever heard about the people who invest in the company? Shareholders ring a bell? 
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Letter #2
Then there is the guy in Carson City who takes on the Mayor of Las Vegas who took Obama to task for telling people they shouldn't go spend money in Las Vegas. He belabors the point that billions of dollars have been "wasted/lost in Las Vegas, maintaining that Obama was right in his admonishment.
I had to wait an hour to re-visit this one.... So, we are really lucky here in Nevada that we don't have a personal income tax. I wonder why that is? I wonder why there is now gambling in 48 of our states? This guy reaps the benefits yet doesn't get it? How can you not get it? I just can't say anything more about this, it is so asinine that this guy doesn't get it.
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Letter #3
Finally, a man, who maintains that he loves dogs, chastises the Reno Fire Department for using a fire truck to take a dog that they rescued from a burning building to a vet for treatment.
What would he have them do? Walk?



I'm sure you can see why I had to read these one at a time and take rest periods.