Alex Yawor – 2/15/09

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Washington must stop playing games; Alex Yawor; Beaver County Times; February 15, 2009.

Mr. Yawor’s previous letters attempted to bash President Bush regarding Iraq and Iran, and VP Cheney regarding his hunting accident. In a July 2006 letter, Mr. Yawor implied if you support our action in Iraq, you are “eager to send our young to die in Iraq.” Two of Mr. Yawor’s letters tried to lift up Jimmy Carter (here and here).

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“I am angry at the people in Washington.”

[RWC] Keep an eye out for what’s missing from this letter. I’ll tell you what it is at the end.

“They’re all like a little child who says, ‘Play the game my way, or I will take my ball and go home.’”

[RWC] Wasn’t it President Obama who said his view on taxes would prevail because “I won?” Didn’t Mr. Obama also falsely claim we had only two choices, his plan or doing nothing? As a reminder, the Congressional Budget Office compared the spending bill with doing nothing and found doing nothing actually resulted in a better long-term outcome. Oops.

“The promises they keep are the ones they make for themselves; they completely forget the people who put them in office.”

[RWC] Like promising to post bills on the White House website for five days before signing them and promising not to hire lobbyists?

“In the president’s speech, some of the last words he said were, ‘We have to work together,’ meaning the people in Washington. Well, hell will freeze over before that will happen.”

[RWC] President Obama has no intention of working together with his opponents when it isn’t necessary. I don’t have a problem with that except Mr. Obama should be upfront about it. Hey, elections have consequences.

“It makes me angry to see Washington give billions of dollars to banks and companies whose millionaire CEOs are a large cause of problems we have today.

“The president also said, ‘There is no free lunch.’ For his information, there has been a free lunch for people from one generation to another. When will that stop?

“I remember years ago we were on what then was called relief. An inspector came every month and checked your house. If they found a radio or even a phone, your relief was cut off because those were luxuries.

“If they would do that today, I am sure many people would lose their welfare checks.”

[RWC] This is incredible! Everything he railed against in the previous four paragraphs is/was strongly supported by Mr. Yawor’s party. In the comments that will surely appear on the Times website, how much would you bet the local lefties will assume Mr. Yawor is an evil Republican?

“I also remember the Works Progress Administration. During the Great Depression, my father worked on the WPA. He helped build Monaca Road. Why don’t they bring something like that back today?”

[RWC] Mr. Yawor may remember the WPA, but I bet he doesn’t remember what Henry Morgenthau, FDR’s Treasury Secretary during the Great Depression, said. Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee in May 1939, Sec. Morgenthau said, “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started … And an enormous debt to boot.” Further, unemployment never got below 9.9% before the U.S. entered World War II.

What’s missing? In his previous letters, Mr. Yawor consistently named names and parties to blame. Of course, in all cases the offending parties were Republicans and/or the GOP. Now that we have a Democrat President and Congress has had a Democrat majority for two years, Mr. Yawor fails to name names or the party in the driver’s seat of Congress. I am surprised, though. Given his letter history, I figured Mr. Yawor would find a way of blaming Republicans. I haven’t given up hope, however.