Coin Redesign

Re “U.S. Coin Redesign Close to Approval in Congress,” Dec. 6:

So Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) is at it again: spending other people’s money for his personal desires. We taxpayers will be paying for his role in the S&L; debacle for a long time to come, and now he wants us to foot the bill for redesign and minting of new U.S. coinage. Why? Because his socialite lady friend considers our present coinage to be “. . . ordinary and boring.” In these troubled times, this is the height of political arrogance, and our President and Congress should tell Cranston his free-spending days and ways are over.

ELLIS KATZ, Encino