Who should we beat up on next?

To the editor:

Ahhhhh ... life is good for the Review-Journal.

On Monday they can kick the teachers and the school district around. On Tuesday it is time to take on the firefighters.

On Wednesday they can attack Metro. On Thursday they can condemn the state, county and city employees.

On Friday they can put Harry Reid through the ringer. On Saturday they can throw mud at President Obama and the Democrats.

On Sunday, with an expanded section, they can go after all of the above. Ahhhhh ... life is good for the Review-Journal.

Ron Misenor

Las Vegas

Pay up

To the editor:

Why are we subsidizing solar power plants which will sell us electrical power at 200 to 400 percent higher rates than we are paying now?

JOSEPH M. HANS JR.

LAS VEGAS

Up and up

To the editor:

The Sunday July 4 Review-Journal headline read, "Public employee pay keeps rising." I had to chuckle to myself because it is all relative.

I also notice that so do fuel prices, food prices, taxes, power rates, water and gas rates, public land usage fees, rates for all services such as attorneys, medical, auto repairs, etc. etc. What hasn't gone up? So the point of the article is moot, and is meant only to incite negative public sentiment.

By the way, only inches from the headline was the price of the newspaper. Three dollars. I remember 10-cent daily and 25-cent Sunday papers. Everything keeps rising. Even newspapers.

PETER L. HASLEHURST

LAS VEGAS

Name game

To the editor:

For those still undecided on how to vote in November ask yourself, why is "Rory" desperately trying to distance himself from the Reid name?

Harry's dirty smear campaign tactics prove that he has accomplished nothing he can be proud of. He is a made-for-Obama puppet who prides himself on being an expert in wealth distribution. He will not admit that he favors amnesty for illegals, which would cost those rightfully here millions of jobs. Instead he hides behind the term "comprehensive immigration reform."

Harry Reid is an open book, you just have to read between the lines.

HANS BOHN

LAS VEGAS

Job figures

To the editor:

So the Obama White House proudly told us this week that they had underestimated the wonderful "job saving" results of the gargantuan stimulus bill. How they arrived at the new (or even the old) assertions is in itself another analysis by the Obamaites worthy of public skepticism.

Therefore, having learned to question just about any position or statement issued by the Obama team, I reached for my trusty calculator. Lo and behold, punching in the old numbers and comparing them to the latest figures, I discovered these guys really did accomplish something.

The cost to taxpayers for each and every single job they "saved" had dropped from around $350,000 each to about $250,000-$300,000 each. Wow, doesn't that just make you feel tingly all over?

I can't imagine why the Obama White House would believe they had done well by spending more than a quarter million dollars to "save" someone's job.

There seems to be no end to the unwise approach this administration brings to every problem our country faces.

Fred Waldman

Henderson

See no evil

To the editor:

This week, a local Las Vegas reporter asked Sen. Harry Reid about a Pew Hispanic Center Report, released in 2009, which stated that 17 percent of the construction workers in the U.S. are illegal immigrants. Sen. Reid said, "That may be some place, but it's not here in Nevada."

Either Harry Reid is lying again, which he often does, or he really believes what he said is true, which further shows that he is too far out of touch with what is actually happening here in Nevada.

Once again, proof that he needs to be out of office. He has been there too long; is too out of touch; is too corrupt; and needs to be back in Searchlight, where some people still believe him.

It's time. Let's help him get there. Vote him out of office on Nov. 2.

Bill Wilderman

Las Vegas

Fund raiser

To the editor:

How is it that President Obama can tell government entities not to spend one thin dime on Las Vegas, but he can come here for Sen. Harry Reid and stay for a "few" days, drumming up campaign funds?

I would prefer him to drum up some funds for those of us who are still paying mortgages on underwater home loans. Eight-thousand sounds about right.

Ed Christoph

North las vegas

Another bill

To the editor:

I see Harry Reid and his fellow socialists are celebrating passage of their so-called financial reform legislation. It was government policies from three administrations and Congress, led by Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, that caused the housing bubble to burst, causing our current recession.

Congress created a climate where banks lent money to people who could not afford their mortgage, because the government guaranteed those loans through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

But this financial reform legislation did nothing to address the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac loan guarantees. The government continues to guarantee home loans through these two entities, which hold virtually all government guaranteed mortgages.

I recently read that 1 million people are predicted to walk away from their underwater home loans in 2011. This devastating economic ride is not over -- it may be just beginning. Those loans will add another trillion to the federal deficit, and keep home prices depressed for years to come.

Skip Blough

North Las Vegas