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Citizens United decision horrible

This letter is a reply to all the inaccuracies so readily apparent in Gerald Aleksy's opinion that appeared in your May 5 "Views."

In it he takes issue with a previous letter to the editor by stating that CEO pay is deserved because they live their jobs 24/7 and their continued employment is based on success. Success as defined by whom? How many "successful" CEO's have run a company into the ground (working 24/7?) and take off with all their massive ill-gotten gains - otherwise known as the proverbial "golden" parachute?

As for people with large estates, if you have to share 40% with your less affluent brethren, is that really so drastic, when they're still going to have millions left over?

Where does Mr. Aleksy suggest the government get the money needed to run the country - ONLY on the backs of the guy who punches a clock? Who can more easily sustain the cost? Without the guy who punches the clock, how would that CEO survive, except with robots to do the work, and what does that portend?

As for the "level" playing field resulting from the Supreme Court Citizens United decision, the Republicans have always been big business and rich people have overwhelming, historically supported them. It was only the errant sons of the aristocracy, i.e. Teddy Roosevelt, FDR and JFK that allowed the Democrats to have a chance, when it cam to benefiting the bulk of the once thriving middle class.

Two wrongs don't make a right and the horrible Citizens United decision does nothing to mitigate this fact. Democrat or Republican or any other entity, should not be allowed to buy our government.

We're ultimately all in this together, unless Mr. Alesky can find another planet to sustain him.

Rosemary Colbert

Schaumburg

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