Letter: Legislators should stick to the important issues

Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1998 | 11:38 a.m.

We have the House sitting there on the American people's salary listening to Monica Lewinsky's sexual affairs, Jones and other unimportant matters. I personally am not interested in anybody in the world's sexual affairs. I want them to spend my tax money discussing campaign reforms and what they do with all the campaign funds they obtain.

I want to know if they can make a solution to what they do about Saddam -- not walking away from it like President George Bush did. And raise the minimum wage so poor people can afford to rent an apartment.

And to make Social Security solvent, and to give the notch babies the same Social Security benefits as every one else does. Why should we be penalized for being born in that period? Nobody told us that we wouldn't have to go to war because we were born then.

I sailed through all the war zones before and after the war and through the whole World War II Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean. Are you waiting for all of us to die so you can keep the money you are cheating us out of? Most everyone in that age bracket is a veteran and half of them are dead.

Show me that you elected officials can do something better than worry about anybody's sexual "private" affairs and do something about the issues that you were elected to resolve.

Clem Sienkiewich