U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar lost the election. Get over it, liberals. Rep.-elect Chip Cravaack does not take office until January, yet liberals already are nipping at his heels. Perhaps that's because he is consulting business as well as industrial interests in our district, and we know liberals are no friends to business.
The Northern Lights Express train will never support itself; government would have to subsidize it like the European rail system Oberstar endorses. Amtrak ski train?
Extending unemployment benefits for another 13 months would continue to keep those unemployed on the bottle, like dependent infants, without an incentive to look for employment. There are no tax cuts on the table. The choices are to extend the Bush tax rates or raise the tax rates. Which do you prefer? "Soak the rich!" I don't think so. Who runs our businesses, provides employment, and takes financial risks while at the same time paying the bulk of our taxes while 47 percent of Americans pay no federal income tax? It is the wealthy people in our country who give the most to charity, and that would end if our liberal Congress raises the rates or perhaps takes away charitable deductions for them on their income tax (their money, not the government's).
We have become wealth-envious in this country, as though working hard and being prosperous was a sin.
Perry Rowlison
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Duluth
