Letters

Mitt Romney gave the American people a dose of voodoo economics in his interview on Meet the Press this past Sunday.

He wants to lower taxes for everybody, thereby stimulating the economy. This same trickle-down theory has not grown the economy since invented. He wants defense spending at 4 percent of GDP yet he told the VFW that he wants to increase it by $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years. Then he said that he would eliminate the deficit by the end of his second term. These are contradictory goals.

I want to thank Tom McDonald for his (Aug. 27) editorial asserting what the oil and gas industry’s carpet-baggers will not tell you, our commissioners (including Ron Ortega), or Ron Barela; namely, that the hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), over 60 years and a million wells later, has proven to cause irreparable harm to the groundwater, livestock and humans living on or near fracking sites. The long and well documented history of “fraccidents” (including fatalities) speaks for itself.

Assuming there is any sincerity whatsoever in what Mitt Romney says (which of course is always the big question), I appreciate his making clear what he will deliver:

1. “Drill Baby Drill.”

2. More Supreme Court justices like the geniuses who approved “Citizens United.”

3. Less regulation and even lower taxes for the millionaires and players like himself, who brought on the current economic disaster.

4. A repeal of “Obamacare” —  which of course he invented.

Recently it was impossible for me to sleep. I was worried about my dog, afraid he would not make it through the night.

Just two days earlier he was a happy, healthy guy, but his (and my) life changed abruptly when a pack of three vicious dogs (without collars) attacked him when we went for our morning walk. They tried hard to kill him and they would have succeeded had I not been there in time to come to his rescue.