Tuesday's letters  Last Modified: Monday, February 10, 2014 at
6:58 p.m.  Working for dependents  If we are going to pay
unemployment, subsidize health insurance, provide food stamps
and give earned-income tax credits to poor folks, and we are
going to make it financially beneficial to 2.3 million middle-
class workers to cut back to part time, why are the rest of us
working our butts off?  It is beyond comprehension that there
are still a few of us who have enough pride and self-respect to
try to support ourselves and our families. Frankly, I'm tired,
angry and discouraged.  I'm tired of beating myself up while I
see capable people wandering the streets. I'm angry that my
government thinks that for some reason I am responsible for
those whom the government has hooked on being dependents. And I
am discouraged that there seems to be no hope of things getting
any better.  Victoria Vaughn   Young will take the jobs  In
answer to the recent letter "Obama's idle hands": Several
references in the media suggest that