Letter: With tax cut, Bush damages nation’s future

Friday, July 20, 2001 | 4:45 a.m.

Old Clinton haters never die; they just harangue away. Punch their buttons with a few kind words for the Clinton years, as Sun Editor Brian Greenspun recently did, and you get flooded with messages they were brainwashed with in the Ken Starr propaganda years -- dire tales of sinful sex. Clinton's family seems to forgive him, and the rest was never anybody else's business.

Today we are faced with a new category of sinful behavior in high places called greed. It doesn't make as juicy reading in the scandal sheets, but of the two forms of sinners, I sympathize more with those who fall from grace when young fame-and-fortune-seeking sugarplums rub up against them than with the ones who damage their country and their fellow countrymen with their greed. Bush and his buddies just pushed through a tax cut that will haunt us forever, just so they could pay off their rich supporters for financing their elections.

We have been had. The national debt, Medicare, Social Security and education will suffer, which means all of us who aren't in the multimillionaire class will suffer. "Privatize" is their catchword and goal for all public services. Is there any way this drain of the U.S. Treasury can be headed off before it is too late?

PAUL GWIN