To the editor:

Affordability is the problem. A 90-year old Ohio woman shot herself when she was evicted from her home for not making mortgage payments.

Elderly taxpayers can’t pay for golf courses, athletic fields and community buses. They have to keep their homes while the government bails out banks, pays for KU parties and overspends. If the bus can’t support itself, we should vote “no” and should have been given a vote on the golf course and athletic fields.

Even if the housing market causes foreclosures, the home appraisals didn’t go down. Is that fair? We can bail out banks but not reduce appraisals, not vote on golf courses or athletic fields. Government manipulators chose to put only bus services, not the golf course or athletic fields, on the ballot. How convenient! Do we get a chance to vote the “percent for the arts” OFF the program?

What’s more important, a person’s home or a public bus system? We had Bus 62, Independence Inc. and other buses before this. Why do we need a nonprofitable bus system?

Mary Ann Kieffer,
Lawrence