Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain…does it really matter who wins the election in November?

All three are card-carrying members of the Washington, D.C., good-old-boys club where the rule is you grease my palm, and I’ll grease yours.

In the coming months, each candidate will tell the voting public what they want to hear, and then all will be forgotten. The same can be said for the rest of the elected officials in Washington, and even in our state govenment. It seems that once elected, they forget why they are there, and fall into the big spin game of poltics.

Oil and gas prices will go higher and higher, driven by the greed of the pencil pushers on Wall Street with their pocket protectors, and nobody in Washington cares a tinker’s damn.

Greed by corporate America is one of the biggest problems in the country, as the rich get richer and poor get poorer. Since the 1960s, this nation has put a man on the moon and has a space station. We have all kinds of new gadgets in our homes to make life eaiser, but the average car still gets about 30 miles-per-gallon.

Now what is wrong with that picture? I wonder if big oil may have something to do with that – keep mpg down to drive oil company profits higher and higher.

I’m pretty sure it does.

Steve Yenco, Lisbon Falls