SPENDING: Only cuts will answer

Americans just don't seem to get it. Our industries and jobs continue to be forced overseas by taxes and unions. That makes for fewer taxpayers.

Meanwhile, the number of government employees keeps rising, along with their salaries and benefits, programs, government retirees, et cetera. The whole mess is unsustainable and must come to a screeching halt.

I commend the governors of Idaho and Wisconsin for their actions, but they are only a scratch on the surface. Don't believe what the Feds are saying about "recovery." It isn't happening.

We must get serious now or the Great Depression will begin to look like good times. Cut, cut, then cut some more. We have to do this.

BRUCE McKAY

Hayden