Look back to Rome

The concentration of wealth into an ever smaller portion of the population ensures fewer of the citizens care enough to defend, fight for or support that society [“The lives of ordinary Americans,” Opinion, Feb. 5].

As Rome found many centuries ago, when society exists for or rewards only the few, the select, the elite, it crumbles. Rome fell not as the Visigoths stormed the gates, it fell when there were no more who cared if Rome fell or not.

While Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney proclaim to care about the nation — there is little doubt they do, for it is within the privileged and rewarded class that there are the last vestiges of support left.

Now that is dangerous.

— LeGrande Blount, Covington

Actions speak louder than words

It isn’t necessary to wait for what politicians admit — it’s what they do, or neglect to do, that counts.

— Bob Miller, Seattle