Editor:

Everyone knows we are sadly in need of jobs and they are not being created. It takes wealth to start a company or work project and that is just a fact of commerce and business. How many of us have ever been employed by poor people? None. It is the evil filthy rich who start projects that employ people, they invest their money and take their chances, some fail and some are successful.

Our President had the opportunity to okay the Keystone Canadian pipe line that was to bring oil sands to Texans to refine and this would have put some 20,000 persons to work, but no, Obama is so hung up on Green Energy that he does not want to consider that evil oil for it pollutes. He is hung up on wind and solar energy, he wants to develop battery powered autos to replace gasoline engines, but how many of us have ever seen a battery powered airplane. Do we have any battery powered tractors, combines or over-the-road 18 wheel trucks to deliver the produce that we all use each and every day? Some day we might, but we do not have it now. For the present time and the foreseeable future we are going to have to rely on gasoline and diesel fuel to power our economy and this man in the White House is evidently to stupid to see or to stubborn to admit the truth.

We must have someone who can stimulate the economy and get us moving again for the man in the office now is only playing at being President. He is in over his head and doesn’t know if he is afoot or horseback and is destroying the entire county.

Mitt Romney is a venture-capitalist and his first major business deal was investing in a start-up office supply company. This started with one store in Massachusetts that sold office supplies. That company called Staples now has over 2,000 stores and employs over 90,000 people. It is the largest office supply store chain in the United States. This is only one of many successful business ventures to his credit and while he is one of those evil rich men, he does spread the wealth around in the way of jobs and not just by taking from the person who earns it and giving it to the ones to lazy to work for it. We need a change in leadership in this country and this November I hope the people will see “it is the economy stupid.”

Bud Olinger

El Dorado Springs