To fund government, take cue from households
To the editor:
Our legislative leaders have said "once votes are taken on essential spending levels, then (they) would examine the revenues needed to reach them," according to Friday's Review-Journal. This is very typical of the Democratic Party approach to budgeting.
May I suggest an inversion: They examine the revenues available, then take votes on the choices of essential spending possible. It is what every family has to do -- unless they fall into the pit called credit card debt. These are hard times, and even government must cut back.
Sue Grue
LAS VEGAS
Yucca perspective
To the editor:
Several observations are in order regarding Roger Hillman's Friday letter to the editor touting Sen. Harry Reid's efforts to derail the Yucca Mountain Project:
I am not a proponent or opponent of the repository, but I have studied the issue enough to know that spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants are not "the most poisonous substance known to man," and not even close; that there is no plan to transport high-level nuclear waste to the planned Yucca Mountain repository through Las Vegas via U.S. Highway 95; and that, if a transportation accident were to happen, radioactive material would not "spew" because the rods are a very heavy, solid material encased in protective, crash-resistant cannisters.
Mr. Hillman would seem to be a man who spends way too much time reading Las Vegas Sun editorials.
Don Freund
LAS VEGAS
Pig, meet lipstick
To the editor:
It is time to call President Obama's "stimulus package" by its real name: The Union, Tort Lawyer, Government Employee Income Protection Act. No matter how the Democrats want to spin this legislation, it is a pig with lipstick.
To include ACORN and the National Endowment for the Arts in a stimulus package is the height of dishonesty. The Obama administration already has proved to be the Democrats' dream, and this bill is most blatant attempt to buy power and votes since FDR.
If the majority of voters receive some sort of government assistance, the Democrats will succeed in eventually establishing a socialist state.
Martin Shainen
LAS VEGAS
