Bumbling FBI

Congressional committees are outraged at not being informed of General Petraeus' affair. Informed by the FBI? Get real! Those bumblers could not even prove that Obama was born outside of the USA. Real Americans knew this instinctively; the facts are extensively documented on the Internet and by my relatives. The FBI could have prevented Obama from being president and had him deported, but they failed to do so. Whose side are these big government agencies on?


Las Cruces

Internet hoax

A letter to the editor from Tony Mitchell printed in the Sun-News on 11/16 claims that a paper in Prague in the Czech Republic stated that, while President Barack Obama is merely a fool, the electorate who made them their president is a multitude of fools.

An Internet search for this article from "a paper in Prague" was unsuccessful. This claim by Mr. Mitchell sounds like one of the Internet hoaxes that people believe blindly and forward ridiculously. Even if such a claim existed in some paper in some place in the Czech Republic, that does not mean that such a claim has any merit nor is worth repeating. In the future, maybe Mr. Mitchell could write letters to the editor with quotes from national newspapers like the National Inquirer, The Star, or the Onion. At least these quotes would be verifiable.


Las Cruces

Answer is obvious

The Republican Party seems confused by what happened in the last election. The answer should be obvious.


The people who do not want to work out-number the people who believe that work will cure our all our problems.

We arrived at this division of people's thinking in the 1930s when FDR and others came to the conclusion that the best way to keep the Democratic Party in power was to appeal to the weaker side of people by inserting a good dose of communism into our economy.

Until then, people had depended on family or friends to either sink or swim.

What has happened since then to deepen the people's dependence on the federal and state's governments would take a volume about the size of War and Peace. I will try to be brief.

The moving of the people in food and other farm production into urban areas. Does it seem strange that so many people suffering from hunger are showing signs of obesity?

The involvement of the federal government in our children's education. Who thought that "The dumbing down of America" would be good for anyone? Our government's definition of the "poverty level." If you want to see real poverty, I would suggest a trip to observe the plight of the people "living" off of the scraps in the Juarez, Chihuahua garbage dump.

To end my narrative on what went wrong in the last election, Social Security has done more to destroy our families and friends interdependence and willingness to save for our retirement than anything our government has done for us.