Letter: Capital gains? Not under Bush

Friday, Sept. 14, 2001 | 8:58 a.m.

Isn't it ironic that Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., balked at signing a letter written by Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., calling on President Bush to demand that Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham attend our last Yucca Mountain meeting. If Ed Bernstein had been elected, he would have been there "front row center." I noticed Mayor Oscar Goodman attended.

You can buy a master's degree in business administration and even a position in the National Guard, but really high IQs come only to a few. Remember the 10,000 level on Dow Jones during Bill Clinton's administration? Remember the balanced budget? Remember the surplus?

I see the direction this country is going now, and I know our leader is a fool. Bush doesn't want a nuclear waste dump in Texas, so Viva Las Vegas will get it.

Bush's answer to the shrinking surplus is another tax cut for the wealthy through capital gains. With the condition of the stock market, who has a capital gain? Bush took care of the market by talking down consumer confidence.

What a fool, our own "accidental president."

S. J. MOROSINI