Stickin' up for Jack

Editor,

Do you have class envy or is it just an ax to grind with Jack Kingston? Why do you care if he's trying to solicite wealthy yacht owners to stop here on the way to where ever they're going? Would you take that sarcastic tone if he were talking about wealthy people coming to the film or music festival or to Gulfstream to buy a plane. Regardless of the times we are in, there are still going to be people with more money then either one of us. If they spend there dough here who cares whose mouth the advertizing came from. (and why are you even harping on Kingston anyway, he doesn't represent the 12th District, John Barrow (D) does. You haven't done much critiquing of him).

So does this mean that Jack Kingston is out of touch? You haven't convinced me. He and the other Republicans are out of favor because they lost their fiscal responsibility, stood up for an unpopular war, and never effectively defended the descions they made (among other things). Hence, they are in the minority. This is the reason President Obama is "able to work so far ahead of them..." When you have little resistance, you can push your agenda through quite easily.

That leads us to the stimulus. Money for the Georgia Port expansion is a good thing: jobs, grow the local economy, create the ability to receive more goods and expand Georgia's role in international commerce. $20 million to re-sod the National Mall? Nah, that can wait. To say that there aren't any good parts to the stimulus would be wrong. But there is plenty of pork in that bill. And that's where the rubber meets the road, because Republican opposition comes from wanting to remove the "wasteful things" and include more tax cuts. It's the definition of "wasteful things" that can't be agreed upon (and tax cuts are just going to benefit the rich as the arguement goes).

One final thing. As our city council debates what to do with our new borrowed wealth, I will think it's ridiculous to finish the Truman with that money. I thought that was covered by SPLOST.

John Stevens