Policies are crushing the middle class

The state of Illinois is going to lease parking meters now, and rates are going to quadruple. Parking lot fees in Chicago are ridiculous. You can't park on several streets during the snow ban months. And the mayor says this will encourage the use of public transportation. We have to pay to drive on tollways. The price of gas was recently over $4 a gallon and miraculously is back where it should be, go figure. So you can't drive anywhere, yet the top auto companies want the government to bail them out so that we will all buy cars again.

Are you kidding? Not to mention the fact that you can't buy a car without a loan and even though the government already bailed out the banks, credit isn't there.

Where's our bailout?

Are they counting on all of the rich people to buy up all the cars? Why not give the average Joe a chunk of the bailout so we can go buy a car. Isn't that what carmakers are looking for? Then we all come out ahead. Maybe we need scooter lanes on the highways rather than carpool lanes. Or the government should invest in a more advanced and widespread transit system so we can ditch cars all together.

The American people are getting bilked out of every dime they make. The American dream has been lost to the greed of the corporate CEOs, who the government is bailing out, and the crisis goes on.

You hear about nothing but corruption in the news. Everyone wants more money, yet we don't have any more to give. Seems like power breeds dishonesty and greed. But their day will come.

The only light that I see at the end of this tunnel is the fact that there won't be any corporate jets where these people are headed. The poor and middle class however, will finally be living the high life.

Mary May

Hoffman Estates