I must reply to Denny Andrews’ Sept. 16 letter: “We can’t afford Obama’s recovery.” When did the Americans that Mr. Andrews represents become so heartless and greedy? What happened to the social responsibility of the 1930s through the ’60s that created the “Wealthiest Country in the World”?

Why show such hatred for Obama for trying to heal the wounds caused by the previous eight years of Bush’s spending: lowering such badly needed tax money for our infrastructure and bringing us into the most expensive wars in our country’s history? Can you figure out how many jobs and how much repaired and replaced infrastructure one month of war spending would fix?

Each time people get laid off, they lose close to everything: their benefits, homes, cars, credit rating, medical and dental care, self esteem.

Does the letter writer not have the compassion to know how deeply sad and desperate it is to lose a job or profession?

On this whole planet we have the highest difference in salaries between the highest paid and lowest paid workers, just like before the Great Depression of 1929. In Europe, where I’ve lived and worked, even after all of the taxes and spending that Mr. Andrews hates so much, Europeans still have an average of $28 more at the end of the day in their pockets than Americans.

We have become a disgusting society. The letter writer and Tim Eyman deserve to be on the same page in the Bellevue Reporter. They both fight supporting all the beautiful things that we used to create in this country before we became greedy and heartless.

Linda Andersson, Medina