Letters to the Editor  Wednesday's letters: Stimulus spending
saves, creates jobs  U.S. economy  Stimulus saves and creates
jobs  A number of recent letters and op-ed columns have claimed
that the federal government's stimulus spending has not worked.
Try telling that to the thousands of teachers, firefighters and
police officers whose jobs were saved by stimulus funds. Or to
the many thousands more employed by GM, Chrysler and associated
suppliers who would be unemployed without the stimulus.  Some
people like to claim that President Franklin Roosevelt's
stimulus spending did not end the Depression; that it took the
war to accomplish that. What they need to remember is that it
was not the war itself, but the massive spending on defense.
Building all those planes, ships, tanks, etc., was the biggest
stimulus spending ever, and that's what ended the Depression. So
don't knock the stimulus.  Lewis Lederer, Clearwater  Do your
part to help the swells Aug. 12, Daniel Ruth column  The voters
have spoken: Don't rai