Letter: Obama administration not living up to billing

Dear Editor:

Here we are a few months into Obama’s presidency and already he has lied to us more times than Bush did in eight years.

No earmarks (pork barrel), no lobbyists in his administration, five days to read all bills, transparency, reach across the aisle, no new taxes for those making under $250,000, etc.

The first lady has been “proud to be an American” for over a year now. I missed the announcement by the media on her first anniversary.

We have a tax cheat in charge of the IRS and the treasury. He got in before that was a reason to withdraw from consideration for a slot in the cabinet as the next few people found out. Lots of ex-Clinton people helped to solve the problem, hence, there went the promised “change” down the tube.

I hope the terrorist who is suing a Bush lawyer for being “water-boarded” is successful. That will give precedent so I can sue LBJ and his administration for water-boarding me in 1965 before I went to Vietnam. And I wasn’t a terrorist, just a lowly soldier being trained in “escape and evasion” by the 25th Infantry Division.

Now that the government is running the banks, mortgage companies, car companies and soon our socialist health-care system will soon be profitable like the Post Office, Amtrak, Medicare and the Social Security system. My and your children and grandchildren can pay for our new socialist lifestyle.

Maybe the American people aren’t dumb but they sure aren’t very smart either. Whatever happened to honesty, integrity, responsibility and common sense? All gone forever?

Jim Pierce

Libby