The more I read about the proposed stimulus package, the more I’m convinced that the Democratic leaders have no idea what they are doing (“Save Our Stimulus,” Feb. 6).

They are placing the future of this country in peril.

In their quest to launch this bloated, left-wing spending program, they have exposed the engines of our economy to a flock of flying pork. We are cruising without power; we are heading into the Hudson River, and we don’t have Captain Sully in the cockpit.

Maureen Kelly

Palm Coast, Fla.

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During the campaign, President Obama promised to take a “scalpel” to the budget – to closely inspect every spending program and trim it wherever possible.

Less than two weeks into office, he’s proposing that we dump tons of manure on the patient, insisting that is the only way to recovery.

We’ve come a long way in a short time from that finely sharpened and targeted scalpel.

The fact that Obama received millions and millions of votes makes it pretty clear that there’s more than one sucker born every minute.

Gregg Nelson

Chester, NJ

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If Obama wins in his payback to special interest via a pork package, the American people will lose now and for generations to come.

Joellen Arrabito

Point Pleasant, NJ

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Obama seems content with his role as grand marshal of the Pelosi/Reid Stimulus Package Parade, avoiding any show of leadership in this matter.

I guess that he goes along with their holding the US economy and taxpayers hostage until all the far left’s social goals have been attained.

It appears that the Democrats don’t care what shape the country is in as long as they get to run it.

Philip DeFreest

East Greenbush

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The only thing that this stimulus package will stimulate is liberal dreams of spending taxpayer money to promote their hold on power.

Obama has been in office for only a few weeks, and he has already been rolled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who jammed every piece of pork she could find into this boondoggle.

If this is what hope and change look like, why does it resemble the old Democrat nostrums of tax and spend?

Paul Bianco

Roslyn

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Obama has been in office for less than a month, and he has already managed to scare the American people with self-serving and irrational statements that the failure to pass the stimulus bill could be a catastrophe from which this country may never recover.

We elected Obama, hoping that he would lead by showing strength, innovation and leadership, as opposed to using fear tactics. While we are in the midst of a recession, this country still has the strongest economy in the world, and Obama knows full well that we are not on the verge of disaster.

Will the stimulus package produce the desired effects? Only time will tell. But using doom and gloom to get this package passed is not the way to go.

Dan Clemens

Marlboro, NJ

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Presidents George Washington and John Adams abhorred the notion of political parties. They described them as “factions.”

At least a faction then stood for something other than its own re-election and rape of the Treasury.

Last time I looked, the word “moderate” was an adjective. Yet that is the term applied to describe the two GOP senators from Maine and one from Pennsylvania who are wheeling and dealing to help pass the so-called stimulus package.

In these gloomy days of the republic, with a president who won an election while never evincing any principles and so-called Republicans swooning before the liberal juggernaut, we risk freedom being trampled by the socialist mentality “to get it while you can.”

A polity that can vote itself a seat at the public trough threatens democracy itself.

Anthony Spinelli

Manhattan