Let Free Enterprise Fund Football Stadium

In “San Diego Losing Its Football Team Spirit” (May 11), you cover the San Diego Chargers’ desire to move to greener pastures in L.A. Let’s see: a billionaire like Philip Anschutz angling a strapped L.A. County and reeling in L.A. citizens to buy him a new stadium. A team that managed to squeeze San Diego into buying unsold tickets (to the tune of $25 million) complaining it’s not making enough money. And, spurning a $78-million civic investment in its own stadium, a team management that is ready to run. These people want to suck even more money from us. In an environment in which L.A. can’t even afford to fund its own hospitals?

What a bunch of whiners. If Anschutz and the Chargers want a stadium so badly, let them pay for it themselves. What do they have against the free-enterprise system?

Jeff Estes

Long Beach

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The column by Steve Lopez (“Watch Out for Sneak Play in Massive Redevelopment Plan,” May 10) covers all the salient points. If Anschutz wants to build a football stadium, let him use his own billions of dollars and not taxpayer money.

The Valley is again getting shafted by this tax giveaway. Is it any wonder that it wants to secede? Mayor James Hahn is courting Valley voters, and all the while he has his hand in their hip pockets. Lopez’s column should be required reading for the City Council and Hahn.

Robert Lauer

West Hills