U.K. should have staged two votes
Had the U.K. used a two-stage voting process on their desire to leave the E.U., they would now be much more stable. If a country uses the system of a simple majority, then there is no recourse for emotional and anger voting; however, if they had a second referendum held 30 days later, and, then gained a simple majority, then the measure should pass.
Having the second, confirming vote would ensure the people really wanted a serious change and not just a protest vote. I suspect the measure would not have passed the second time, saving trillions of dollars in lost wealth.
DON G. WHITE, ATLANTA
Welfare expense also a burden on U.S.
There seems to be no end in sight of news articles in the AJC and other media proclaiming the death of Social Security and Medicare due to a reduction in income to support the programs. I, like millions of seniors, paid into Social Security for 50 plus years and I resent it when I hear that the one program which mandates payments over a given number of years in order to qualify for future payments is going broke. However, no one seems concerned about the expense of welfare and illegal immigrant programs which are 100 percent paid for by taxpayers and when these programs need more funding they just dip into the treasury. This is also in part true for congressional and federal employee pensions, paying out far more than they take in. If Congress had kept Social Security off budget like it should have been, we wouldn’t be facing this crisis. However, during the Nixon administration, Congress saw the opportunity to offset the budget deficit by infusing billions of dollars then in the Social Security fund to help cover up the red ink.
W. E. STAVRO, SUWANEE
