SOUND OFF: Feb. 10 - Paul, Kucinich not cockroaches; 'None of the above' for road funding options; 'Lincoln' about 13th Amendment

I really enjoyed your Jan. 20 Jan. 20 editorial "Congress rated lower than the cockroaches." This is really true and will always be true. You can list almost every member in Congress except Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. The rest of these people are much worse than the cockroaches. You could also add the media to the list.

Rochester Hills

I would really like to know what economic textbook Gov. Rick Snyder is reading. This is about the evil stepsisters getting a $3 billion tax cut and Cinderella getting the boot. The governor is a CPA, an attorney and is reputed to be very intelligent. But I believe he is bereft of reality. Businesses had their taxes cut and/or eliminated. Businesses use the public roads the most. As I understand it, the governor has now given us two choices for maintaining the roads: a 2 percent tax increase or an increase in car registration fees. I have already made my choice: none of the above.

Auburn Hills

Regarding the Jan. 2 Blog Bytes: I think the blogger Alcove meant to say the movie "Lincoln" was about the 13th Amendment, not the 14th Amendment, unless that was a typo. So why wasn't the movie, which was about a 13th Amendment, called "The 13th Amendment"? That's obviously because nobody would go to see a movie with that title. The script writers obviously wanted to portray a movie where Abraham Lincoln had to spend a great deal of his political capital trying to convince Republicans to vote for the 13th Amendment. In the script writer's view, that was the story they wanted to project, not about Lincoln himself, but about the 13th Amendment and about the Republicans who didn't want to vote for it.


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