Don’t Count on Snow to Block Bush’s Agenda

Re “Bush Picks Rail Exec for Treasury,” Dec. 9:

Bush’s snow job continues with the appointment of John Snow as Treasury Secretary.

Surely whomever he appoints to the position is irrelevant. His aid-to-the-rich program will not lose steam until the public really analyzes the impact of his tax policy and sees its one objective: a complete plutocratic takeover.

Entitlement for the rich has been deeply etched into Bush’s constitution, if not his soul. And his estate tax cut, another step toward a single-mindedly envisioned plutocracy, is another hangman’s plank for the lynching of progressive taxation. Judging from past inattentions, it’s unlikely that the public will be listening to the debate for his latest giveaway schemes for the rich.

If not, Bush’s economic coup d’etat will continue unabated, for no economic alternative plan seems apparent in the “Sleepy Hollow” we call the Democratic side of Congress.

Jim Hoover

Huntington Beach

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Odd that George W. Bush would select for the Treasury post someone who applauded Bill Clinton’s balanced budget and deficit reduction just a few short years ago.

Not so odd, however, is the fact that Forbes magazine gave John W. Snow a CEO rating of “D” for his stewardship of CSX Corp., which hemorrhaged profits for five years even as Mr. Snow paid himself handsomely with millions in salary and stock options. And this is whom our president selects to lead us into economic recovery?

Stephen C. Lee

La Habra