To the editor:

I’m trying to get rid of this silly “conspiracy” thought that keeps occurring to me. Maybe writing it out in a letter to the editor will help.

Doubtless not a conspiracy, but sort of an interesting coincidence: that gas prices are at an all-time high while former oil-company executives hold the nation’s two highest offices. Could oil interests have financed the campaign with the understanding that the administration would help them make a little hay at citizens’ expense? Perhaps that’s what tax cuts are about – give money back to citizens, who then turn it over at the pumps to oil companies. It’s a transfer of wealth, effectively, of the people’s money to big oil. Certainly that’s the way it’s working – but is it on purpose? No, just too wild.

Corporate interests from all over also helped the Bush campaign. Following the silly “conspiracy” line of thought, I’m sure those big boys want their cut. Perhaps that’s what “private retirement accounts” are about? Another enormous transfer of the wealth created by citizens to take care of citizens, but given by President Bush to corporations, since that’s why they contributed megabucks to the campaign.

Voters actually put him in office. And voters, at least the non-super-rich voters, are the ones who get their tax assets delivered to huge corporations. Not a very ethical way to treat supporters. But that’s impossible – big business using elected officials as bought-and-paid-for tools to rob America.

That could never happen.

Gary Henry,

Lawrence