Regarding the letter “Westmoreland needs higher wages to grow population” (Oct. 22, TribLIVE): Thanks for the math. Do this math: Who helps us senior citizens? You double people’s wages, but senior citizens don’t get their checks doubled. We need to pay for the same items, but now we will pay more, maybe double the price.

What do you mean by “something against the interest of every Pennsylvania resident”? The prices of everything have gone up, except our Social Security checks.

Maybe these people can speak up for themselves and ask for a higher wage or walk off the job and go somewhere else, like the union auto workers who got help in 2009 and who did not take a pay reduction while management and non-union workers took a pay cut or lost their jobs. Now the auto workers are on strike for more money. What about the taxpayer money that bailed them out? Are taxpayers getting it back? They have short memories.

Like a politician told us when the company I worked for needed tax money for help: “Not enough voters there to worry about.” How’s that fair?

Cliff Long

Unity

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