Letters: Battered Dollar

To the Editors:

President Washington should not be pictured as battered [Nov. 13], but his admonition to us certainly has been. Remember his warning?

"Cherish public credit . . . use it as sparingly as possible . . . By vigorous exertion . . . discharge debts . . . not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden we ourselves ought to bear."

Robert P. O'Donnell, M.D. Las Vegas

I propose that we balance the budget now, and require balanced budgets by law.

Tom Fonte Fulton, Mo.

Who causes inflation? At the count of three, everybody look into...

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