Letter writer missed another’s sarcasm

I can’t believe Ms. Elaine Kalcsics (Fence Post, Jan. 4) interpreted my sarcastic attack (Dec. 20) on “big business” and the Republican politics of “reducing the minimum wage” and “refusing the extension of unemployment benefits” and “reducing income taxes for the rich and super rich.” I can’t believe she interprets my charge that they are “spitting in the face of the middle class and working poor and unemployed American workers” as something less than a direct attack on their policies and philosophies. Does she really believe I thought “we should all be proud of the ‘hooray for me and the heck with you’ politicians in Washington”?

In truth, I feared my sarcasm would be seen as too strong for the column. Didn’t she read the part that accused these Republican pols of “sour grapes, sore losers,” lining their own pockets with their earmarked special tickets in their bills, sore losers because they lost the presidential election?

C’mon, Ms. Kalcsics, read my letter again. Don’t you see even a hint, a glint, a sarcastic, facetious attempt at belittling the “haves” vs. the “have nots”?

Frank Sears

Buffalo Grove