This letter to the editor in the Kankakee Daily Journal should win an award for the most bugaboos in one document. I’ve highlighted them for your ease of use. [ALNAC, by the way is the commission that will run the Peotone area airport]

ALNAC and the foreign company that will finance and operate the airport would destroy Beecher and the surrounding area by their decision that if a passenger airport won’t fly, they are going to make it a cargo airport. This means most flights will be made at night. ALNAC has decided to extend the runway from 10,000 to 12,000 feet to accommodate the new Airbus 380.

This airplane can fly directly from China to Beecher, with more Chinese and other foreign products to undercut U.S. products. It weighs in at 1-1/4 million pounds, takes 82,000 gallons of jet fuel, has 190,000 horsepower and has no pollution devices — like all other aircraft.

The plane will take off and land on an east-west runway — right over the new houses in the Hunters Chase subdivision. I have checked with the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) and found that 80 percent of the major airports have had crashes on approach and departures in the past 40 years. There is only ONE runway planned at Peotone airport.

You need to have some understanding about jet fuel. It is a hydrocarbon like auto gasoline. However, it has an additive package that is so toxic it has to be registered with the EPA. A jet engine is only 37 percent efficient — the rest is toxic waste

The case to build this airport is that it is going to create jobs. If the politicians would send the millions of illegal aliens back to where they came from, we would have plenty of jobs.

It looks to me like Jesse Jackson Jr. is like some of the rest of the politicians. They are selling or leasing our ports, roads, banks, shipyards, and businesses — even our airlines now — to foreigners. If I didn’t know better, I would think our country is bankrupt!

The national debt is accelerating past $9 trillion, our trade deficit is $60 billion and rising, the average credit card debt is $9,000, the state is stealing money from pension funds and companies are dropping pension funds altogether. Our economy is in a very precarious position.

The people who want us to have a global economy don’t tell you about the diseases that humans can get; diseases our crops are getting; other new critters that are killing our native trees, and jobs that are being lost to cheap foreign labor. Isn’t this too high a price for America to pay for globalization?

Dude, you forgot global warming and Islamofascism.