Terry Matthews – 2/19/08

This page was last updated on February 19, 2008.

Inquiries mistimed, misplaced; Terry Matthews; Beaver County Times; February 19, 2008.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“For as much as an avid sports fan as I am, I find it very distasteful that Congress is wasting the taxpayers’ money investigating sports-related matters rather than dealing with real issues.”

[RWC] Mr. Matthews is doing OK so far.

“Determining if Spygate and the NFL destroyed the tapes and evidence pales in comparison to the CIA destroying the torture rapes.”

[RWC] Mr. Matthews is really concerned about destroyed tapes allegedly showing the water boarding of a couple of terrorists, including the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks?

“The steroid investigation hearings on Capitol Hill should be replaced with how every quarter since Hurricane Katrina, Exxon has reported record profits at the expense of the taxpayers.”

[RWC] Mr. Matthews hasn’t been paying attention. Congress has investigated the oil companies since forever and every time they find no one did anything wrong. Also, since tax dollars didn’t provide the revenue, ExxonMobil didn’t make their profits “at the expense of taxpayers.” Mr. Matthews also seems to forget that when any company makes “record profits,” they also pay record taxes.

“Investigate the important issues — contractor corruption in Iraq, the weakening dollar, record foreclosures, rapid job loss, etc. — and leave the sport industries to clean up its own act.”

[RWC] “[C]ontractor corruption in Iraq” and elsewhere is already under investigation and has been for quite awhile. That’s how Mr. Matthews knows about it.

The “weakening dollar” makes U.S. products more attractive to both U.S. and foreign consumers.

Once again, “record foreclosures” are under investigation, but we already know the reason. People bought houses they knew they could not afford, and lenders allowed them to.

Where’s the “rapid job loss?” Even with at least 12 million illegal aliens, our unemployment rate is only 4.9% and we’ve been adding jobs every month for a few years.