Your guest columnist, Don Brunell, is correct when he says the election is about jobs and wages (Oct. 24, Auburn Reporter).

Presidents Hoover, Carter and George Herbert Walter Bush are proof that it is the economy that hurts a president’s voter appeal.

Brunell is wrong when he says that the market should determine the wages of workers. Walmart pages low wages and restricts hours to limit health care when the family who owns Walmart is worth a reported $6 trillion.

Personally, I don’t want persons working for me who do not get fair wages and some health care.

I do not go to Walmart. I also do not want a Keystone Pipeline, which moves Canadian oil across my land to our southern coast, where it is refined and sold to the highest bidder that may not be the United States.

Workers deserve a fair wage, and the Affordable Health Care Act is a start for workers to get some health care insurance.

As long as Boeing builds some of the world’s best airplanes, which meet market demands, the Seattle area will prosper.

Boeing also pays good wages. Firms that do not pay fair wages and some health care should not prosper.

– Harold B. Valentine