L.J. is right about one thing: big money corrupts unconditionally

To the editor,

L.J. Siden contributed his comments concerning, toxic, political rhetoric submitted in letters to The Daily Sun. Here is the counterpoint.

It could be reasonably argued that screaming, yelling and protesting is American DEMOCRACY in the raw, similar to a town meeting every day, only in the paper. I see it as FREEDOM at work, and I suspect many others do as well. Every person has a right to be heard and their beliefs test driven and challenged for logic, accuracy or conflicts of self interest. Conflicted interest is a major concern when reading any letter. As an example, Kathleen Welcome of Groveton attacked my letter on Pell Grant abuse while she pockets tens of thousands in FREE MONEY from them. People handed welfare in whatever form are poor sources for objective thinking regarding ANY handouts being stopped, reduced or reformed. With LJ's beliefs so strong, I ask him why he wasn't denouncing the noisy, finger pointing Occupy Wall Street rabblerousers last summer, who were blaming their life's misfortune on the 1-percent? I am sure you recall the fringe group of un-hygienic Americans yelling, screaming, urinating and defecating in the park. hassling pin stripe types, spitting on the cops and smoke'n who knows what. The truth is protesting and making loud noise in the paper or anywhere to attract attention to ones frustrations is acceptable within the limits of the law. Politics and writing are SUBSTITUTES for WAR. The vast majority of letters to The Sun concern politics at one level or another. Thus letters to the editor are WAR without the bullets but with the same LOUD noise. Look to the TEA party to confirm that angry, emotional, protesting can be successful. In 2010 almost every Democrat up for election lost their job coast-to-coast after many of the tea sippers beliefs and concerns became mainstream that democrats in control of all branches of government were OVER REACHING and OVER SPENDING.

Look at Obama right now. It is election year! He has held more than ONE HUNDRED SIXTY political FUND RAISERS since Jan. 1 to raise BIG money. That is more than the previous FOUR presidents COMBINED in the same time period. Why? This will be no slam dunk election like 2008. He needs a billion to BUY more NOISE ON TV (ADS) to drown out and angrily demonize his opponent's message. More money means Obama ads more often, louder and longer. You will be a babbling idiot by election day, listening to the mind numbing drivel. Worse, every ad will be slippery, partisan, concoction of fantasy that skips on threads of truth to produce a false conclusion. Example: Obama the community organizer who doesn't know net margin from net profit is better prepared to create jobs than someone who worked his life in the private sector buying, selling and rehabbing businesses. That partisans with honest, justified fear about the direction of America would do the same thing in The Daily Sun should surprise no one including L.J. It is fact the person who raises the most money who can yell loudest and longest that is almost certain to win any election. Why do you think Obama is spending literally every waking hour running from one fund raiser to the next NOT ACTUALLY RUNNING THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT as job creation stalls and the economy sputters aimlessly. America is now LEADERLESS as he campaigns 24/7, letting Americas troubles blow in the wind.

L.J. is right about one thing. Big money corrupts unconditionally and it comes from all sources both private and PUBLIC. ALL politicians are drawn to it like a moth to a light. There is no weaker-willed bunch to green than red and blue politicians. MY SUGGESTION to L.J., let's STOP the subsidies for ALL, let's plug ALL the loop holes in the tax code, which includes removing the mortgage interest deduction (it's a loophole). Lets have a flat, fair tax, everyone earning over 40k pays 12-percent of their income, no exceptions. Medicare and Social Security withholding taxes are increased to match what people actually collect. Lets declare WAR on WELFARE as CLINTON DID instead of FERTILIZING it the way Obama does. All welfare handouts do is allow politicians VOTE BUYING opportunities to swing elections. Let's get EVERY UNION OUT of the PUBLIC SECTOR the way FDR demanded, assuring their VOTE is not POISONED for political promises of another raise. I am ready to clean house of political cronyism when you are L.J. Are you really interested in reducing angry letters or are you just a camouflaged socialist supporting more double-down Democratic failure in the person of Obama? I suspect the latter.

Tony Boutin

Gilford