Businesses won’t last four more years

To the editor:

Today I mourn the death of the American Dream, the dream of business ownership which built most of the wealth that has sustained this great nation for more than 200 years.

With the advent of another four years of an Obama administration, it will no longer be possible to start a new business. In fact, for most people it may not even be possible to keep afloat the one they have. It is the government, after all, that built businesses (or so it was said), and with the increasing interference, regulation and taxation which will only escalate from this day forward, the only businesses which will be able to survive will need deep pockets and government-connected lobbying efforts. Mom & Pop will necessarily wither and die.

We have become a people who prefer to drink at the public trough and wallow in the mud of greed and corruption. With the wool over our eyes we march blindly into the future believing any lie our leaders choose to tell us. We no longer question their motives or judgment for fear we will be looked upon as intolerant of race, gender, sexual orientation or faith.

Our children will be further educated to become zombie workers of the future, and our churches will be silenced into submission or they will be threatened with taxation or extinction.

I was blessed to be a member of the "greatest generation," and I have been a business owner, but we became too fat, lazy and complacent, and we have only recently taken notice when it was obviously too late to stop the progressive freight train that has been roaring down the tracks since the 1960s.

We naively thought the American Dream would always be there, but now we must bear the responsibility and mourn the loss for our children, grandchildren and future generations. We let it slip through our fingers, and the future now belongs to the "dependent generation."

The end of the American Experiment is upon us. Oh, what a grand idea it was! We have squandered our freedoms for politically correct sound bites, quick fixes, easy solutions and pandering politicians, and the media were complicit in the deceit. They told us not the truth, but what they thought we wanted to hear, and we bought it hook, line and sinker and now it will drag us all down like an anchor around our necks.

No longer do we ask what we can do for our country, but how much our country can do for us - until she runs out of China's money.

DALENE HARRISON

LAS VEGAS

No difference

To the editor:

As a 30-year Republican, I've been trying to figure out why the re-election of President Obama does not render me apoplectic. After some serious soul searching, I have an answer, and it is a depressing answer. The answer is that it just doesn't much matter.

Both candidates and parties pledge fealty to our foreign adventurism. Both candidates and parties covet the status quo on the war on drugs and profess that the national government's duty includes complete prohibition on an individual's medical (and yes, recreational) substance choices.

Our nation stands on a continent it dominates, surrounded by two friendly neighbors, yet both candidates and parties claim the strength of our military is an overriding concern.

Neither candidate or party seriously argued that the Constitution restrains the federal government on what it can and cannot undertake. Neither candidate or party forwarded any plan that would truly alter the entitlement structure and agenda which will eventually bankrupt the nation.

And finally, both parties and candidates placed national government control of education at the forefront of their campaigns, with neither professing to recognize that this subject is constitutionally and logically addressed at the local and parental level.

So, while I personally might have enjoyed a government that was more pro-business, as only one straw in the bundle, there was little to get excited about. The two gentlemen running were, simply, horses of the same color, and I can understand the propensity of the electorate to not change that horse in the middle of the stream.

Nevertheless, for the populace to assert that hope and change are the primary motivators affecting their choices, there was nothing in the current race to actually give hope, and change was glaringly absent from the equation.

BOB NERSESIAN

LAS VEGAS

A selfless man

To the editor:

I am so tired of people equating wealth with arrogance, especially when talking about Mitt Romney and other Republicans. This was the sound bite that President Obama sent out against Mr. Romney because he literally had nothing else. The Democratic Party has had some of the richest candidates/presidents in history, including John F. Kennedy and John Kerry. And Mr. Obama himself has a net worth of $5 million to $10 million.

This is what Democrats call arrogant: Giving more than 14 percent of your income to charity, working for free as governor and as the savior of the Salt Lake City Olympics, spending the majority of his life in quiet acts of service without pay or fanfare.

This was one of the first candidates in U.S. history who had no skeletons in his closet, no cronies to pay off after years of running for political office.

He is smart, successful and capable. He ran for love of country, not for power and financial gain. And like idiots, America flushed him down the toilet because the other guy was giving away free ice cream cones which we, our children, and our grandchildren will be paying for for the rest of our lives.

Great job, America.

T. JORGENSEN

LAS VEGAS

Fruitless

To the editor:

I hereby tender my resignation for life from the political process in America, effective Nov. 6, 2012.

My life experiences have shown me that you cannot change the reality of your life until you accept responsibility for creating it.

America is in a state of denial. The first step toward recovery is to admit that you have a problem. America can't even do that.

Since I can no longer use my vote to address this problem, because the state is enslaving millions using the same methods as the dope dealer on the street, I must step aside and simply let it happen.

Example: "Hey brother, check this out, it's free and on me. If you like it, hit me up again, I got you."

Sadly, that is where America is at, and it hasn't hit bottom yet.

The conclusion of 100 years of progressive philosophy from President Wilson to President Obama has returned humanity to the darkness of Plato's cave.

DAVID BAKER

LAS VEGAS

Ineligible

To the editor:

In his Wednesday letter, David Adams accused columnist Glenn Cook ("How many noncitizens are registered to vote?") of making up information about Culinary Local 226 and noncitizens who were signed up to vote.

Has he not heard about libel? If what Mr. Cook stated was not true, he could be sued. Does he think Mr. Cook wants to lose his career? Mr. Cook also mentioned two names in his column and refused to identify those who squealed. Good for him. He kept his word.

I sent an email to Secretary of State Ross Miller last week. I have yet to receive a response.

I've read that a group down in North Carolina is trying to get to the bottom of this pattern of registering ineligible voters. It appears that no one cares.

Maybe it will go away, just like Benghazi?

LAURIE BRENNER

LAS VEGAS