Re the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis estate auction:...

Re the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis estate auction: $1,160,000 for JFK’s golf clubs; $211,500 for Jackie’s fake pearls; $48,875 for her tape measure (April 26).

Tax cuts for investors. Layoffs for the middle class. Budget cuts for the public schools, health care, fine arts and the environment.

What does it all mean? How about “obscene”?

ARMOND FIELDS

SARA FIELDS

Culver City

* Is there anyone as disgusted as I am at the frenzy of the “rich and famous” to buy the Kennedy memorabilia? How much better it would be to enjoy looking at these things at the Smithsonian or the JFK Museum or anywhere where all Americans can admire these pieces of history. Instead, we have the super rich paying outrageously high prices to brag about a piece of history the rest of us will never see.

The whole auction was a public example of pure greed. For the same amount of money, these people could have saved the lives of ill children, built a hospital or bought books and new equipment for a school. That would really be something to admire instead of the revulsion this spectacle gave to the American people.

SHIRLEY CHEFFERS

Whittier

* Now we know what the rich like to do with their spare change.

JAMES D. STANDISH

Whittier

* Jackie O’$ Camelot ha$ moved from the White Hou$e, to a Greek’$ yacht, an auctioneer’$ block, and--re$t in piece$--rich folk$ trophy room$.

JOHN HOLMSTROM

Hollywood