Without real job creation, there is no recovery
To the editor:
A national economic recovery will take hold when unemployed workers get back to real, permanent jobs, not government-invented, temporary, make-work projects like collecting census information and filling in potholes along highways. And when hundreds of thousands of people have been out of work for so long they need extensions of their unemployment benefits -- all paid for by legislators borrowing again on the federal budget credit card -- there is still real trouble no matter how the Obamacrats in the media and their supporters try to spin it with their "glass half full" rhetoric.
The country is so far in debt it will be decades before it can get out, if it ever can. There is no assurance that any bright future is coming. Anyone who has ever tried to pay off a credit card knows how almost impossible it is, and how much more than the initial amount is owed in interest and service charges.
However, I do understand that if one is looking at the street after exhausting 99 weeks of extended unemployment benefits, it is hard to see past the curb and sympathize with lawmakers asking where they're going to get the money to give out. But the solution isn't just making it through Tuesday, but also making it to Friday.
kent rischling
las vegas
Punch drunk
To the editor:
Your July 2 edition reported that Assemblyman Harvey Munford has asked legislative lawyers to write up a bill that would set up a fund to help down-and-out boxers and mixed martial arts fighters cover medical expenses -- and possibly give them pensions -- after their careers are over.
Is this man nuts, or what?
I think all boxers and mixed martial arts fighters probably know when they partake in their respective sport that it's dangerous. But just in case someone doesn't realize that, how about a simple law stating a participant has to sign a statement that they acknowledge participating in a dangerous sport.
Instead of trying to put any burden on the poor taxpayers, who are already supporting too many nanny-state ideas, let's stop some of this nonsense.
Bryce Lee
las vegas
