To the editor:

It is becoming more evident that President Obama has hit on a pretty good idea for fixing our Congress-created financial problems. It seems that more and more of his nominations of people who are going through the approval process for their new federal jobs are “discovering” their small hiccups and “honest” mistakes and are actually paying big bucks to the United States Treasury in the form of back taxes and interest. Our responsible leaders eagerly explain, “Nobody’s perfect.”

Before we know it, he will have picked enough of these “honest” folks who will come forward and actually pay their back taxes, penalties and interest. This should infuse the federal government with enough funds to pay for all of the pork-infested bailout bills for which our children and grandchildren would otherwise be required to pay during their entire lives.

Robert Vaughan,
Lawrence