Regarding the article, I never got a journalism degree. I just started reporting and put in print what people actually said and what really happened. The stories got to be so “tell it like it is” that from time to time the Town or City Clerk would ask me for my stories to be used as minutes.

Thank you and I have deeply appreciated some of your articles!

I’m talking about the fact that Goldman-Sachs sees and pre-trades on every trade that takes place on the NYSE. They have government-endorsed guaranteed profits. Surprised they were so instantly profitable after being “broke?” You needn’t be. AIG and the others who are raking in billions and handing out enormous bonuses while the unemployment rate is above 10% (U3) and nearly 18% (U6).

The best period for the American middle class was from the late 1930s through the earliest 1970s when everyone agreed that government needed to be funded to provide reliable services for a stable society. Now, people have been manipulated into believing that cutting the legs off of government will benefit them. Instead, the truth is that bridges fall down, public health suffers and the threads unravel.

As Warren Buffett famously said, “Yes, there is a class war, and we (the weathly) are winning.” He went on to protest the unfairness that his secretary pays a higher marginal tax rate on her labor than he does on his billions.

“J” above is worried that the conservative Honduran government line — representing the corporate overseers — is not adequately represented. Yet, she knows what that point of view is — she got that information somewhere. The government PR was spread.

She only complains that others do not accept the self-interest of big business and the ruling class over the will of the people. The very term “banana republic” comes from the big corporations who have run Central American politics for two centuries.

Each time the balance of power tilted too much toward the little people, these same corporations were able to call upon the US military to enforce their profit-taking and slave labor. Whether the marines landed to put down popular rebellions or arms were provided to government death squads to kill indigenous peoples by the thousands, the US has enforced the power of profit over the lives of little people.

That’s what accurate reporting would tell you. But instead, the millions are concerned over Tiger Woods’ marriage and what Apple’s new product will do.

“The news” whose job it is to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable” is nothing more than entertainment these days. It could use a lot of improvement.