Community Forum: Government doing little to ease our pain

Editor:
Well, Freddie, and Fannie Mae are being "bailed out" by our government. Little is being done to ease the pain of the people victimized by the greed of the managers of the mortgage companies.

What you are looking at is "socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the poor."

How many readers have considered just who governs them. The Constitution of the United States was written by the rich, well-born, and able, for the rich, well-born, and able. For the most part early leaders acted for the well-being of most Americans.

Our present government is dominated by a venal, self-interested group.

As a voter, have you ever considered just what you have in common with today's candidates? I can't think of a congressperson, or a senator that would fall into my social-economic group. How about you?
Ken Cantine,
Laguna Vista
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Palin can't run country if she can't control family  
Editor:
Well, so much for family values. I knew it was a cliché, with absolutely zero substance.

Suddenly the right-wing extremists are defending Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy. "It is just everyday problems people face in America." (These comments made by one of her delegates.)

I don't know but if it would have been one of the Democratic candidates who had a child who was about to become an out-of-wedlock parent, the right-wing radio hacks and the righteous print pundits would be all over it about loose liberal values and failed social policies.

When it was announced that Jamie Lynn Spears, a 16-year-old, was pregnant and was going to marry the father of her child, the Fox News hacks attacked the parents. Motormouth Bill O'Reilly stated, "The parents need to be held responsible for the girl's behavior; she is out of control." But Sarah Palin's daughter is out of bounds. What a pack of hypocrites.

Let me see, the GOP would like us to believe that this woman is ready to run this country when she can't even control her own family. And by the way, I guess the abstinence stuff only works for other people's kids.

Yeah, yeah, I heard this story before: "Do as I say, not as I do."
Frank Garcia,
Harlingen
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