When is losing your job not really losing your job?

To the editor:

I read recently that Clark County commissioners voted to reduce staffing in the coming months, and that 23 people in management will lose their jobs, either by pink slip or demotion. I then looked into my crystal ball to see what we could expect and saw not one manager being given the pink slip. My crystal ball showed some opting for retirement (so taxpayers can continue to support them) and the rest being reassigned with no reduction in salary.

Boy, I sure hope my crystal ball is fuzzy and we actually do see some cost reduction.

BRYCE LEE

LAS VEGAS

Feeling chilly

To the editor:

I wonder if people in the Midwest, Northeast, England, Spain and all the other areas of the globe that are experiencing extreme cold temperatures are saying, "Please, please, please give me global warming"?

VITO J. POLIZZI

LAS VEGAS

Reid popularity

To the editor:

It is no mystery why Sen. Harry Reid's poll numbers have dropped so precipitously. He was a good representative for Nevadans, but in recent years his personal ambition and slavish adherence to the liberal ideology and the dictates of his party's socialist leadership have led him away from the people of Nevada and, indeed, the people of the nation.

Case in point: His dictatorial use of the holidays to force a vote on the unpopular government health bill, a bill that was conceived in secret and voted on in ignorance to meet a contrived deadline. With the aid of Nancy Pelosi, the House/Senate reconciliation will take the same route -- with no conservative representation.

Government by the people, of the people and for the people? Hah!

RAY HOFFMAN

LAS VEGAS