If all the members of Congress (a ton of knowledge but not one ounce of common sense) were sent home, the nation would be better off.

In nature, only the strong survive.

In the U.S., people too lazy to work and crooked banks are rewarded with taxpayer bailout money, money stolen from hard-working people and well-run businesses.

Let the crooked banks and those lazy people go under!

Reward U.S. businesses that expand their work force here, reduce pollution and become more productive by eliminating that business’ federal taxes.

Everyone would be back to work and the elimination of those taxes would reduce product costs and increase exports.

To balance the budget, reduce the size of the ineffcient, wasteful government and the out-of-control government programs.

For those too lazy to work, no more free money, free food, free rent, free medical care, free heat, free college and so on.

It is pathetic to watch a person too lazy to work buy lobster in a grocery store with food stamps, while the hard-working people struggle to survive.

Because of the unnecessary taxes, American companies have had to lay off American workers, pay substandard wages, hire illegal aliens, relocate offshore or go out of business.

We can blame the government system for destroying the once greatest nation on Earth – America.

It used to be the “Land of the free.” Nothing is free in the U.S., unless you are a bum or a crook.

Warren Packard, Rumford