Letters to the Editor for March 29, 2010

Change: Lots of talk, little action

To the editor:

The way I see it, so much for change.

The last presidential election was billed as we are going to change the way Washington operates. I am still waiting for that to happen.

There may still be time to save our country if the Tea Party or some other group gets serious about real change. There is a group of people in positions of authority that are playing musical chairs in Washington and it has been going on since Carter’s time, or before.

Going back to the 50s a group called the Trilateral Commission, including names like Brzezinski, Rockefeller, Volker, Greenspan, Bush, Clinton and others have been in and out of power for many years. These names and many more appear in such things as the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Economic Forum and other non-government organizations. It seems regardless of which party is in D.C., these same people will be in positions of power. So much for change.

These groups have their closed-door meetings and decide how this pie is going to be cut up. The book “America For Sale” by Corsi should be required reading for our politicians and everybody else.

We are told history repeats itself, but we don’t see to learn to avoid making the same mistakes over and over. The Great Wall in China, Hadrian Wall in Scotland, the Berlin Wall, the wall in Israel and now we are building a wall on our southern border. None of these walls did what they were designed to do. People will figure a way to get around them.

Mexico had 70-some years of dictators and finally in 2000 it became a democracy and we were on a new beginning with our southern neighbors. Then we had 9/11 and that changed everything.

We are in a very bad situation financially. I know that if you find yourself in a hole you should stop digging. Will we ever learn? What will it take to bring us out of this mess we are in?                                 

Eric Romtvedt

Baker City

To the editor:

Morally unacceptable? Surgeon Barbara Tylka needs to pay a little closer attention or in my opinion get the record straight. It is morally unacceptable for the richest nation in the world to be broke? Who’s gonna be payin?                                 

John Marcum

Baker City

Doctors worried about reform, too

To the editor:

Not all Baker City doctors are as sanguine about the health insurance reform bill as the two highlighted in Wednesday’s Herald. The medicrats will use the pegs of these pages to swiftly tie down doctors and patients with tight ropes of red tape. Some of us yahoos continue to view this law’s provisions as more emaciating than emancipating for Americans over the long run. What will be the outcome in five, or 10, or 20 years? How much more money must we steal from generations yet unborn?                                 

Randy Alanko

Baker City