In the letter “Republicans holding us hostage” (Jan. 26, TribLIVE), the writer accused the Republicans of blackmail in which all of us are held hostage by playing a high stakes game of chicken over whether or not to increase the debt ceiling. It would be highly appreciated if the writer included with his sophomoric diatribe about America’s debt just how we as taxpayers will ever repay the debt that already exists. It might be more honest if he admitted that America is broke. We cannot pay our bills now and haven’t been able to since LBJ started the Great Society over 50 years ago.
America is at the mercy of the Federal Reserve Bank, a private banking conglomerate that has controlled our money supply for over 100 years. Does the writer expect his children and grandchildren to pay off the debt? Is this the legacy he wants to be remembered by — recklessly spending today because we do not know or care what tomorrow brings as long as we are pampered? How irresponsible of him.
Sheila Krill
Murrysville