Enron was rehearsal for main event

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7/20/2008 - 7/20/08

This administration's economic policies and those of Ronald Reagan through Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr., have been nothing less than cancerous. The whole idea of borrow and spend has placed us in the situation we are witnessing today. To spend and expect our children to fork up the cash to pay for our mistakes is corrupt.

Remember that Dick Cheney had a secret energy policy meeting with all the major energy companies including Enron back in 2000. Conspiracy or not, the energy companies are driving our economy into the ground. I think what Enron did in 2000 in California was a test drive to what we are experiencing today, and the Bush administration is trying desperately to use a bad situation, and a desperate public, to get what it wants in its last months of office.
John St. Peter
Santa Fe

Altar of pride

Presidential hopeful John McCain believes that it might be necessary 0for our forces to remain in Iraq for 10, 100, or even 10,000 years. Before any of you who are planning to vote for him actually go out and cast your ballot, you might consider the words of British war historian and author, Len Deighton, from his book Eleven Declarations of War; "When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war."

Which of your husbands, wives, sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons and great-granddaughters and all other loved ones are you willing to sacrifice for this old man's pride and profit?
David King
Santa Fe

The big battle

I don't mean to be dramatic, but global warming is the real war raging around us while we are distracted by problems of relatively little importance. Every generation has its struggle, but this generation is facing the slyest opponent ever: ourselves.

I agree with Barbara Kingsolver in her graduation speech to Duke University when she said that our generation is different because we have to become the leaders at such a young age that we don'g get to be selfish or consider living the "American Dream" because global warming is a headliner in our reality. In the way that an 8-year-old child tells their parents that it's time to start recycling, New Mexico is trying to show the feds what they can do. The simplest change in my life will ensure that there is still time for me and my children's children's children to worry about the insignificant things.

Come on White House, wake up and smell the greenhouse gases!
Drea Bustamante
Santa Fe

McCain's forgotten women

I am glad John McCain has clarified his stand on health care. Vote against women's rights, and then just say you have forgotten. McCain voted against a woman's right to choose 115 times. But he has also voted against family planning 22 times!

Now we learn his true agenda. Republicans are out of touch with reality. For millions of women birth control is simply about being responsible. It is just as important as putting food on the table and gas in the car. Barack Obama knows that women make the best decisions they can about birth control and abortion. They know that all Americans deserve health care. They know that millions of us are scared and hurting in this troubled economy, and that we need someone who will stand up for us, not forget us.
Charlotte Taft
Glorieta

Protect open space

The Constitution says "We the people," not "We the lobbyists and corporations of the United States of America," so why are we caving in to these interest groups?

Oil is not a renewable resource, nor is coal. The Galisteo Basin has brought in millions of dollars to New Mexico with the films shot in that area. Pump Jacks and drilling rigs will be an eyesore and visually ruin the basin and drive away movies.

Are we going to throw all of this away so that some rich out-of-stater can get richer? Never mind the potential ecological disasters from this process, and all for a diminishing industry that continuously gets richer at our expense. When was the last time you (the people) had record profits? Say no, absolutely no, to drilling in any sensitive area in New Mexico.

Environmentally, it's our duty to retain what is left of this country's open spaces, if not for us, then for our grandchildren.
Dick Hogle
Española