LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

America is no longer the envy of the world

Stephen C. Higgins, Las Vegas

Sunday, May 11, 2008 | 2:04 a.m.

What is wrong with this picture?

The United States is in an unwanted, unpopular, unjustified war in Iraq, with thousands of our young soldiers dead.

There are soaring record profits for oil companies while the rest of us go broke trying to fill our tanks just to get to work.

We also have a lack of universal health care, as nearly 50 million Americans lack basic health care, a situation laughable to other civilized nations.

The housing market is set to leave many homeless, or close to it. If you do pay your mortgage as agreed, expect to pay three times the original purchase price by the time you are finished in 30 years.

The price of food, one of our essentials, is on the rise with no end in sight — you better seek a second job to help feed your kids.

There is a lack of a serious wage increase, or help from our corporate leadership, to assist in filling our gas tanks and food pantries.

Regarding the outsourcing of jobs to other countries, so now when you call your bank or credit card company you may get someone in Asia where it’s 3 a.m. and his English isn’t so hot. It then takes you an extra 30 minutes to accomplish what used to take five minutes in the good ol’ U.S. of A.

On global warming, environmentalists say we lead the way in helping to destroy Mother Earth. Wonderful!

Thousands of illegal immigrants seek refuge here every day, but maybe when this piece is translated for them they will have second thoughts.

The United States has the most unpopular presidential administration in the modern era ... war profiteering at its finest!

Our kids go to school nowadays in fear of being shot or blown up.

Our Founding Fathers would be disgusted and ashamed.

Discussion: 5 comments so far…

By loloau

5/11/08 at 8:38 p.m.

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Your Liberalism is showing...Oil Co.s are limited to 8% profit margin and have the crap taxed out of them....and are prohibited from drilling on our own soil....we dont want to hurt the ice fish or Caribou...Illegals thank you for the free medical and food your taxes provide...
but youre correct on the present Admin in DC...who continues to print money, devalue the dollar, and inflate the economy so we all are paying double for an In n Out Dble Dble.
By conniec

5/11/08 at 10:26 p.m.

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Yay, wave that liberal flag! Fox News, et al, was so successful in making it a dirty word. Let's take that wonderful word back and remember that, from Jesus to Kennedy, history remembers liberals best!
By NVMakz

5/12/08 at 7:04 a.m.

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"conniec":

Way to go, keeping up that liberal tradition of not responding to the issue, but demonizing the messenger. Most of Mr. Higgin's screed - actually a Sun form letter these days, are the fault of liberals.

Political liberals do little more than degrade and destroy in this age.

Kennedy was NOT a liberal. Today, he'd be John McCain, Joe Lieberman or Zell Miller!!

Tax cuts, national security, streamlining government and so on = Yesteryear's Kennedy = today's John McCain.

Kennedy would be horribly ashamed of today's American social communists who pimp his name for the gravitas they no longer have.
By BigStack

5/12/08 at 8:21 a.m.

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Well Stevie, if you don't like it so much, do let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out.
By nobody

5/12/08 at 5:55 p.m.

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