Editor,
My gas bill just jumped to nearly $300, an outrageous cost for a little heat. It is clear Gov. Richardson's fuel rebate was a publicity stunt in the horrible disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and now we are faced with the real bills.
I hope the next legislative session rejects Richardson's giveaway of $100 million of our tax money to a wealthy tycoon for a spaceport. Our land and money is more important to us than a joyride into space for his entertainment friends.
Our legislators next month need to consider taking our energy resources away from the stockholders of PNM so we can afford our own energy. How did PNM ever get control of our energy, anyway?
Richardson, when you think about him, seems more like a mechanism for transferring state resources and labor into the hands of the global wealthy than he is in really helping us.
Our teacher retirement funds are in danger, but the governor finds millions to invest in venture capital plans (making Michael Vigil seem like an amateur). Our poor can't get into UNM hospital, but he gets his name on a $250 elite doctor-oriented cancer center, and a tax is planned for us to pay for the poor.
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Richardson is planning to allow high-level nuclear waste to travel our roads to Carlsbad, and he wants to turn over more of our land and youth to the military for war and weapons. Instead of standing up and bringing our troops home from Bush's illegal war in Iraq, the governor created a life insurance policy so their parents and families will not feel so bad if they are killed.
Richardson finds ways to help the elite and wealthy who can help him, but he didn't know the basic fact that most of the state's schools are overcrowded, not just the West Side. After all, the governor sat silent while Intel took $16 billion in tax cuts out of the state last year that could have helped our schools.
How can we get Richardson out of the state before he does more damage to us, and forbid if he ever got into the White House?
Bob Anderson
UNM alumnus
