I think Jane Weil said it very well in her letter to the editor (BDN, Dec. 13), but she didn’t go quite far enough. The poor not only are too busy working two jobs or out looking for work, but are also too poor to organize.

Not only does it make no sense to try to balance the budget by cutting back Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs for the poor, and at the same time give the same amount of tax cuts to the wealthy, but they should remember that the national debt is so high because Presidents Reagan and Bush cut taxes for the rich and big corporations.

Corporate welfare as it is now will cost $265 billion over the next five years.

Very few if any of our representatives in Washington are interested in the welfare of the common man. When the people elect them they should be looking after the others not their own inerests instead of big money or following party lines.

When any of them are caught doing wrong they always have some excuse. It was their secretary or merely a bookkeeping error.

Just the other day I read that Bob Packwood will probably draw $2.9 million in pensions and benefits. It would seem right that all members of Congress who voted to spend the country into debt should give up all salary and benefits until the national debt is paid off. William Koch Searsport