I always appreciate the editorial page, especially the history, wisdom and philosophy of Mr. Austin Cunningham.

I am sure that he was always a fair and ethical CEO of his variety of important and successful positions in his long career.

I read Gov. Sanfords article and believe that he has been the only governor in a long time who has really tried to shrink our state budget and knew what has been going on with wasteful spending, because of his experience in Washington.

Our Congress, because of stupid party politics, is too busy raising money for the next election. Members blame someone else for things that are their responsibility, proving how greedy, selfish and lazy we have become.

All of these politics begin at the bottom, and everybody follows, because to be right is not as important as agreeing with someone who has the power to hurt you or to make you look stupid.

Where has our courage gone? We have lost it. We have met the enemy and it is us.

Little towns get millions to spend to revitalize. Theres no vision or initiative to do anything without government money because we have gotten to selfish and lazy to even try to do something ourselves through cooperation and not caring who gets the credit.

(I would really like to know what Bill Clinton did to earn $10 million last year from Dubai, and was it to help Dubai buy land in Santee for $10,000 an acre?)

Out counties raise taxes by inflating property values according to the highest amount paid for what is sold in our area, never cutting back on budgets, and agencies ask for more every year even if they dont need it.

Our biggest waste without the appropriate results is our schools. Children are being ruined by being taught that they deserve the right to everything, without doing their part to earn it.

I was born in 1929, and my parents taught us to work and we had fun doing it.

We learned responsibility and not to cheat, lie and steal.

We knew that it was a privilege to go to school and a duty to earn our living.

We were poor, but we had everything we needed, thanks to our hard-working parents.

At the end of high school, we knew we would not be going to college and all five of us went on to be successful in our life, and our parents had the right to be proud of us.

They had little education but a lot of determination and stamina, along with cooperation and unselfishness that need to be taught now.

After World War II, things were still not easy, and this country had come through hard times, gas rationing, food rationing and the loss of so many good men.

Our generation had the hardest and the easiest life in the history of this country. Our best hope is that something has been learned from history. Our congressmen have not been doing their duty.

We need to limit terms they can serve, stop the lobbyists and limit the time and the money spent on elections so we can have some degree of honesty. Almost all of them are lawyers, and we need some serious accounting and punishment for dishonesty and fraud in every part of government, from top to bottom.

Our justice system is just as broken and dishonest as it can be because of the same situation.

We need a lot of prayer that we make the right choices and that the people we elect have learned some lessons and change themselves, to take responsibility for what we elect them to do and put their country and citizens ahead of themselves.

-- Inez C. Bair, Elloree

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