What Johnny Bartley is really saying in his Dec. 16 letter, “Presidency might elude GOP,” is that after the Democratic Party has bought the black, Hispanic and female votes, it will run the country until 2032. Does he actually think that it will take that long for the Democratic Party to run this once-great United States of America into bankruptcy?

How can the Democratic Party continue to give from the makers (people who work for a living) to the takers (people who won’t work for a living) and not do anything about the abuses of the welfare, food stamp, WIC, Medicaid, Medicare and disability programs that siphon billions upon billions of dollars from the honest American taxpayers?

This country is going to hell in a handbasket because the Democratic Party will do anything to buy a vote.

We are on the track toward tax and spend and may derail within the next four years of this lunacy.

Thomas L. Thompson Jr.

Lexington