Letters to the Editor
From our weekly issue dated August 12, 2009
(Editor’s Note: Views and commentary, including statements made as fact, are strictly those of the letter-writers.)
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This has to stop now
From Chris Matthews
Cave Junction
I am angry, shocked and outraged that nine banks that received government aid (i.e. your’s and my tax dollars) spent $33 billion in bonuses for their employees. Six of the nine paid more in bonuses than they made in profits.
One in every 270 employees made more than $1 million apiece, and a few made $10 million.
It’s time to tell our elected employees that this has to stop now. Why does anyone have to have a bonus for doing their job -- and doing the job the way they did got us into this recession in the first place. And these are the people who bemoan that the federal minimum wage is going up 25-cents an hour.
Hypocrites, liars and thieves need to remember that it is easier for a camel to jump through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into Heaven.
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