The candidate who offers the most change: Ron Paul

Regarding Samuel Rosen's Sept. 11 letter ("Voting for change on Election Day"): the average West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil price per barrel in 1987 was $17.75, in 1998 it was $11.91, and in 2003 it was $27.69. Did you know that Exxon Mobil made record profits in 1998, 1999, 2000 and not again until 2003? With demand rising, oil prices rise and so do Exxon Mobil's profits. Is your point that you're a socialist and you want to limit the price of oil and a company's profit?

In his letter, Rosen listed the Halliburton scandal, the failure of FEMA, violation of international law, attacks on government services, soaring costs of pharmaceuticals, the sub-prime loan crisis, the trampling of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, (but) at the end of his letter, he wrote "I'm voting for change come November."

I'd like to address each of your rants individually but letters to the editor are limited to 350 words. Instead, I congratulate you for your plan to cast your vote for Ron Paul, a man who would really change the federal government.

He pledged to shrink the federal government and give back freedoms taken by both corrupt political parties over many decades. Paul is a harsh critic of the Federal Reserve that I believe has caused most of the recent financial crises over the past few decades.

The other two major candidates offer no change at all, especially Barack Obama, who will continue to expand the federal government by taxing the hardworking "evil" rich people of this country to fund socialist programs, which the federal government hasn't been granted the power to create by the United States Constitution.

Thank you for seeing the light. Rob Kaplan Thousand Oaks