Your Opinion: Response to Horstmann on gasoline prices

Dear Editor:

Recently Harold Horstmamn, being the super conservative Republican that he is, gave a rebuttal to one of my letters.

The topic of that letter was that U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., has been bashing this president for five years about the high price of gasoline and no new production. But now since production has turned around and the gas prices are lower than they have been in many years he hasn't retracted any of his statements concerning those bashings. I never once said that this president was the sole reason for this situation.

In fact, I have said many times in personal letters to Blaine and other letters to the editor, that neither "Obama or Bush or any other president can do anything about gas prices because Big Oil has us all by the throat."

But I am sure Horstmann wants to answer these letters just to satisfy his ego. Horstmann also bashed me, saying, " Mr. Wansing wake up and give up on the Democrat playbook rhetoric and the politics of personal destruction and let's make this country great again."

When it comes to personal destruction this president has been the most dishonored, ridiculed president in the history of this country. He has been called the devil, Hitler and every bad name imaginable. The office of the president should be respected regardless if he/she is red, black, yellow or any other color because they are duly elected by the people of the U.S. But leave it to Horstmann. He is in complete sync with that trash talk you Republicans are the experts. They are against everything this president has proposed that will benefit the lower and middle classes.

I wonder if you, Mr. Horstmann, will recall that the Depression of the '30s followed the three straight Republican administrations of Harding, Cooledge and Hoover. And this recession Obama, a Democrat, had to turn around despite 100 percent obstruction by Republicans followed two terns of another Republican, George Bush.

In each case a Democrat had to make things right again. Just as it took another Democrat, FDR, to save this country in the '30s

I'd be willing to bet that if Horstmann is over 65 he is taking every penny he can from Social Security and Medicare, both programs started by Democrats.

Horstmann wonders what the price of gasoline would be if the Alaska pipeline hadn't been built. It is my understanding that only 10 percent is used in this country. The other 90 percent goes to Japan just an 100 percent of the XL pipeline will be exported.