Young must learn to live free

Young must learn to live free

I am so worried that our young people have been brainwashed from the education that they got. They want the government to control everything. They want the government to give them a free college education and give them jobs. We are not a communist country. We are Americans, we live in the United States.

The young people need to wake up, don’t be a puppet on a string. So many people died to have freedom in this country. I know that they didn’t get the truth about our great history. They only get what is on the test they have to take and pass. Teachers’ hands are tied. The unions control the teachers since 1960s.

Most of these rich people come out of middle class. They made something of themselves. Most of them are from the baby boomers and baby busters. Obama needs to be told we are all Americans, the poor, working poor, middle class, upper class and rich. He wants us to be divided so we forget who we are, the United States.

It is so sad Obama and Democrats only want work for teachers, police, firefighters, nurses, anybody that would be in a union. They only want their union dues so they can win in 2012. We all can’t be teachers. We need to believe in ourselves, not to depend on the government to give us everything. We have lost the word freedom from government, not government control.

Lena Fox, New Middleton

Bonuses? For what exactly?

Is someone kidding me? I was listening to C-Span and they had the executives of some companies on explaining why they should get multiple-million-dollar bonuses.

They say they have to give this much compensation to keep qualified people in these positions. Both of these companies are owned by the taxpayers. They said comparable positions at other companies were in the six-figure range, but they do not add up to the difficulty of these two companies.

These people are so out of touch with reality that they do not even think anything is wrong. No one is worth that kind of money at a company that is losing money. Fix the problem, and then we will talk.

William Cummins, Hubbard