$70 billion bailout? No way

Three or four weeks ago, the president said the economy is sound. John McCain said just two weeks ago that the economy is sound. An now this meltdown, the emergency meetings, the prime time address to the nation. Nobody is taking responsibility; I don’t see any CEO’s jumping out of windows on Wall Street, or committing hari kari in shame. I haven’t heard one CEO apologize for the mess he or she helped to create.

Now they want $700 billion and counting for bailout, or else. Sounds kinda like blackmail to me. We the people will be picking up the debt for the next generation or two. Thanks, George, Dick, Ben and Hank for watching out for us.

Thanks, all you greedy Wall Street bankers and brokers; hope you loose your McMansions and eat humble pie. Welcome to Main Street. Fat chance. Is there a Main Street in the Cayman Islands?

Much of this mess was done behind the scene. Kinda like Cheney’s secrete energy conference. It is time for transparency in the White House, in Congress and on Wall Street. It is time for a change we can believe in.

Roger Paul, Corvallis

Will the discredited GOP please quiet down

Let me see now ... these people advocating John McCain also voted for George Bush? They know better, do they? Hmm. You’d think they would just want to sit down and be quiet for a while.

Tracy Rupp, Corvallis

Depressing election 2008 offers us no choice

As entertaining as it is to read the daily bickering and posturing to persuade a vote for either McCain or Obama, I read these letters with the utmost of concern and melancholy.

Once again, the United States is close to another presidential election, and the stakes could not be much higher: A failing economy, more disasters overseas and a population who is sick and tired of being lied to and robbed.

So what are we offered as presidential candidates? Coke or Pepsi. The fact is, when you analyze the basics of the McCain and Obama campaigns, you will see that there is not much fundamental difference. Every election cycle, the candidates speak as if he has all the answers and will save this country from whatever is happening at the time. And every cycle, we citizens are disappointed.

David Moore in his letter (Start by Nationalizing the Fed) is at least close to the root of all financial problems with this country; the Federal Reserve. My point is most Americans are unaware of the real problems and their roots.

Who really runs this country and controls the money supply? Who really makes foreign policy decisions that are so destructive and do nothing to provide security to this country? The president? Hardly. I urge those of you who actually care about the country you live in to see “Freedom to Fascism” and “The Money Masters,” for starters.

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil” —Jerry Garcia.

Doug Huntley, Corvallis