Do the young people in the front-page story “Poll: Bush plan gets support of young,” (March 3) realize that the money in private accounts will not be theirs to recover at will as in a bank account? That it will cost trillions of dollars to make this change? That the current deficit, a result of President Bush’s economic policies, is using current Social Security payments and borrowing from foreign governments?

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan is a Republican. His advice is partisan. I wish President Clinton’s economic adviser, Robert Rubin, would speak to Congress on Social Security, the deficit, the falling dollar, the inability of most young people to earn enough to support and educate their families with both parents working, much less to save for retirement. Bush is focusing us away from the disaster in Iraq – democracy at a point of a gun rather than winning hearts and minds.

Bush chastised Russian President Putin for his overt repression of the media. In my view, the Bush administration covertly subverts the press everywhere they speak by limiting their audiences to pro-Bush sycophants and apologists for the administration

I wish citizens would read the book by Christine Todd Whitman, former EPA administrator.

Roman Catholic, pro-life Democrats have no one speak for them with political power in Maine except Mike Michaud.

Joanna Walsh-Ward, Lewiston

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