Letters to the Editor Aug. 13

Talk about "kicking the can down the road".... We elect and send these politicos (e.g. Reid, Pelosi, Boehner and McConnell, et. al.) to Washington to conduct the business of our people and, during this session, they have failed miserably. Then they propose and facilitate a "super committee" to actually do that part of their job while they then run off to vacation. Another evasion from accountability.

I invite this and all U.S. newspapers to create and publish a list of the "earmarks" previously arranged by these 12 super-committee members. Then please continue to report on the follow-on haggling and allow us to monitor as they perpetuate the U.S. economy stalemate. Lets keep it in the open and allow the electorate to make necessary changes at the very next opportunity.

God save our country because there doesn't appear to be anyone in Congress that's interested!

J. Ruble

Yerington

On the 5th of August, our nation suffered a devastating loss in Afghanistan. A CH-47 helicopter carrying 22 U.S. Navy SEALS aboard was shot down by Taliban forces. There were no survivors; truly, a terrible loss.

But saying there were no survivors is a serious misstatement because there are 22 families across America who are grieving the loss of fathers, brothers, cousins, sons and comrades as you read this.

These families have but one thing on their minds right now: Laying their loved ones to rest. The regular day-to-day things of ordinary life have receded into the fog of grief. Till the things of ordinary life come back out of that fog, these families need some outside help.

We here in Nevada are far from the home of Seal Team Six in Virginia Beach, Va., but we can reduce that gap and feel the kinship with those families by contributing what you can afford to the Navy Seal Foundation and earmark it for the fallen Seals in Afghanistan.

It's a small thing we can do to honor those who went in harm's way on our behalf.

Here's the website www.nswfoundation.org/donate.htm.

Walter M. Nowosad

Carson City