Letters to the Editor
Little hope for Americans
Do you believe in the tooth fairy? How about the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus or the Great Pumpkin? Well, you would be far better off believing in any of these make-believe icons before placing any faith in the U.S. government.
Remember last year as the financial system was crumbling right before our very eyes, there was a deafening roar to reign in Wall Street by installing rules and safeguards to protect the system from a systemic collapse? Wall Street is at it again. Financial titans, including J.P. MorganChase and Goldman Sachs, have all but squashed any hope for real financial reform by unleashing well-paid and well-armed lobbyists to forestall any and all legislation! According to reports they are already making huge new bets on financial derivatives just like the last time.
When are they going to learn? NEVER, as long as the taxpayer is around to bail them out time after time. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain. President Obama said this matter would be one of his top priorities if elected.
With another former Goldman Sachs guru running the Treasury Department, there is little hope for us regular Americans! The fox is in the henhouse and we can't do anything about it. You can take that to the bank -- if there are any left that are solvent.
Please Santa, can I have my country back?
Mike O'Connor
New Lenox
This will be a cargo airport to bring in foreign products to intermodals so they can be distributed throughout the Midwest. This will put more American companies in bankruptcy and increase the trade deficit to more than $250 billion.
There are two groups pushing the airport. One group is headed by Jesse Jackson Jr., who was named by a newspaper as one of the 15 most corrupt politicians in the country. The second group is the governor, the Will County Board and the Illinois Department of Transportation. Gov. Pat Quinn, local elected officials and some Will County Board members are taking money from the intermodals. IDOT's project at MidAmerica Airport was supposed to bring jobs. Its failure is costing St. Clair County $350 million.
I am a pilot and retired electronic engineer. Commercial aircraft have from two to four engines each of which average 25,000 horsepower. They burn a hydrocarbon fuel just as your car. But jet aircraft have no pollution devices.
They are dumping tons of deadly pollutants, ignoring the Kyoto clean air protocols.
One of the deadly pollutants is carbon nanoparticles, which affects your genetics.
Beecher is only 2 miles from the end of the runway. These planes will be 300 feet over the schools! Beecher is never mentioned in any articles about the proposed airport.
Park Ridge, which is 5 miles from O'Hare, is bombarded by noise. That municipality is taking judicial action.
I am just hoping the politicians can think of the children and people instead of "pay to play" money and stop this disaster.
Bob Carter
Beecher
