Yeltsin’s Visit

Yeltsin’s visit to the U.S. was a public relations trip to raise money for Russia. President Bush’s request for a blank check to prop up the ruble is now before Congress. As an American taxpayer I say to Congress: “No problem! Let’s show them our presses print dollars faster than their presses churn out rubles!”

So what if we prop up a regime with nearly the same cast of characters, and forget the late Andrei Sakharov’s warning that “aid to the Kremlin is like pouring water into sand.”

DANIEL HORODYSKY, Senior Fellow, Nestor Institute, Berkeley