General switch may not be a good idea
Re: “General fired over insults,” June 24
Now let’s see, we have one general who speaks nasty, and one who fainted at a congressional hearing.
Which one would you prefer to be the commander of our military forces in Afghanistan?
Wendel Allen
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Unaccountable government breeds bureaucratic corruption
Re: Federal salaries are high for a reason,” From Readers, June 17
I was shocked to see the feeble-minded letter stating that government employees deserve their salaries. I thought everyone knew about lazy, corrupt, incompetent, and brain-dead bureaucrats. Perhaps the writer never attempted to resolve a problem with the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Motor Vehicles or Postal “Service.”
Governments do not have to compete, nor do they have stockholders to whom they are accountable. Government boondoggling, goobledygook, nitpicking, influence peddling, out-and-out lies and all manner of corruption could not be better known.
Yet very few government employees attempt to change things for the better because they want to protect their jobs and their future pensions. The vast majority do not earn a single dollar of their salaries, pensions, bonuses and fringe benefits.
Rocky Drake
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