Help economy? Stop the war

To all those who believe the economy is a more important issue than the Iraq war, I remind you the economy is the war.

The only way this country can stop inflation and recession is to stop the war, and to stop printing money to pay for the war. Only then will the value of our currency reach its real value, and our inflation, with all its ills, will be stopped.

Any economist will agree we can't pay our bills with 50-cent dollars. But we must end the war first and now.

I've stopped listening to all the presidential candidates because they are wearing themselves out reaching for the brass ring, vying for new things to say.

The good about all this is that all the candidates have made us all understand that our vote counts, and voting will be the most important thing we will do this year.

What difference a bad president makes.

Harry Wald

Santa Maria

May 9, 2008