LETTERS: GINGRICH'S AUTHORITY

To the editor:

An open letter to Newt Gingrich:

Who gave you the authority to tell the people of America they would either accept your ideas or else? Just what do you mean by the "or else"?

Mr. Gingrich, as I see it the only real power you have has been granted by the fact you have the backing of the international banking community. The cuts you want made in the budget are the very ones they have wanted for the last 40 years.

The Republican Party, along with some Democrats, has been going along with them in other ways.

Why not cut foreign aid and bring our men home from Korea, Germany and any other place we have been trying to keep peace? We can no longer police the world.

Neither can we afford to continue paying the bills for the United Nations and the North Atlantic nations and give free border crossings through NAFTA or other agreements of this sort. We need to bring our industry home and keep our taxes for our own expenses.

This is common sense, the only sense that works and has been proven, regardless of the education behind the person.

WILLIAM H. ALLEN

Perryville