Enough of Obama’s “honest mistakes”

On May 26, The Gazette ran an editorial concerning giving part of the almost $1 trillion “stimulus money” to companies that owed back taxes to the federal government. While the total amount given was not in the same league as the amount of President Barack Obama's slush fund, oops, his “stimulus fund,” it is a significant number to me and to most of the honest taxpayers in the country.

If you remember back a couple of years when Obama was putting together his cabinet, there were several examples of prospective cabinet members who had owed back taxes. In each case they were excused as having made “honest mistakes.” If I made such mistakes, I'm sure I would have been in trouble with the IRS, but not the case with his gang from Chicago.

Do you suppose the companies that got the money from the “stimulus fund” had just made “honest mistakes” also?

When is this sleaze going to stop? Maybe in 2012?

Gary Rees

Manchester