Rehberg has done little to help the people of our state

Letter to the Editor,

When Mr. Rehberg was here in Libby last year I asked him why nothing had been done to modify the Equal Access to Justice act. 

It is what the environmentalists are using to siphon tax dollars off, to pay for their crusade against timber and mine jobs and wildlife population.

After a long dissertation, he claimed authorship of the bill and admitted it was unfortunately being abused by the environmentalists. No jobs. No financial reform on Wall Street. No effort to remove federal judges who violate their oath of office, to protect and defend the Constitution (written by human beings for human beings).

I could not, nor did I vote to send Mr. Rehberg to the U.S. Senate. While Mr. Tester was trying to move some jobs in the timber industry and make compromises, Mr. Rehberg followed along with the do nothing Republican right wing no, no, no.

$2 billion — $2-thousand-million — stolen from us while Mr. Rehberg gives us nothing but lip service or supported state constituently amendments giving his 1 percent buddies on Wall Street free use of Montana farm and timber lands to pay off their gambling debts on Wall Street.

Now another freebie for his friends who own cabins on lease land in our national forest that’s .00045 percent of our population. 

If these 14,000 of our 310 million people have to sell their property to pay their taxes they will be in very good company. 

Our nation’s farmers who have farm land up in price from an average of $1,700 an acre before Wall Street destroyed the real-estate market to $20,000 an acre now.

It seems hedge-fund managers on Wall Street and Chicago are now buying up every piece of farm land they can get their greedy slimy hands on. Not one word from Mr. Rehberg about that.

Seems like the real-estate market was only the beginning of runaway greed.

Mr. Rehberg do you or any of your family own one of these leased cabins? Maybe another ALEC idea.

— Harry Turnland

Libby