PUBLIC SPENDING
Stop funding people who don’t deserve it
Regarding “Is education no longer a solution to joblessness?” (Opinion, June 15), what a shocker: another ultra-liberal commentary.
No one wants people to go without medical care or food. Most Americans simply want to figure out how we continue to supply these programs with money we don’t have. Let’s cut all welfare and assistance to non-citizens, and stop sending money to countries that either hate us or won’t even support us. Let’s stop being the world’s police force, and let’s not hand out welfare to people who simply don’t want to work. Guess what you get then? Plenty of money to fund the programs for citizens who actually need help.
TED GLAHN, DULUTH
SURVEILLANCE
Readers of my email will die from boredom
Dear editor (and President Obama; U.S. Senate; House of Representatives; National Security Agency; Booz Allen Hamilton; Attorney General Eric Holder; Department of Justice; CIA, FBI; State Department; Edward Snowden, and anyone else reading this email),
I certainly understand the need to listen to telephone conversations and read the emails of citizens in the war against terrorism.
I wish to apologize to any public servants who, upon reading my emails, may have died from boredom. It is simply impossible to compete with you guys when it comes to mayhem and scandals.
JOHN DUNN, FAYETTEVILLE
So-called safeguards are anything but safe
As an IT professional, I am enormously skeptical of the idea that there are protections in place against the unauthorized use of the data being collected by the NSA. Software is hideously buggy. Networks and databases constantly get hacked. Things are constantly breaking, and tech support is never of any help.
We and our organizations are simply not up to the task of securing the data pouring into the NSA. I guarantee that the legal oversight supposedly in place means nothing, because there is ample opportunity to circumvent the process and get what one wants without anyone being the wiser.
BOB WOLFSON, MARIETTA
TAX ENFORCEMENT
Biggest IRS scandal is lack of leadership
Obviously, we have a small scandal at the IRS. In reading the AJC, we know that scandals prevail at every level of government.
I think that the biggest scandal at the IRS is that there seems to be no highly trained commissioner and staff to direct this huge and vital arm of our government. It does not seem to report to anyone.
Our generals reportedly cost us a billion dollars per year. If we have any major investment in our staff at the IRS, our Congress has not been able to find it.
MITCHELL L. EASTER, CUMMING
