No.

Editor,

No. The real problem is that rich people are hoarding the spoils of the American economy. Corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars they will not invest, and the richest 2% of Americans have refused for decades to pony up an adequate share of their take for the public good.

Public investment in infrastructure, alternative energy, and education languish precisely because the rich refuse to pay adequately for a government that could afford it. Spending is an enormous problem. Trillions of dollars are being wasted on fruitless, destructive wars and a bloated military that is a waste of the productive capacity of our nation. Billions are wasted in handouts to giant corporations, government contractors who charge ten times what an adequately funded civil service would, and gigantic expenditures into a for-profit health insurance and for-profit health care delivery system.

Spending and taxes. Not spending on vital investments in America's children and America's future. Not spending to support the dignity of human beings or the services a modern civilization rests on. But spending into the pockets of greedy, callous multinational corporations, banks, billionaires, and other liars and thieves.

Re: "Ignoring the Real Problem" (4/13/2011)