Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 288 Editor's Choice: 20
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Two Worlds
[Read the article: The politics of an economic nightmare]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have a very secure job. Things would have to go Kosovo for me to lose my job, or to see more than a 10% income loss.
Here is what I have to look forward to in a severe recession. Falling prices from cheaper imports, courtesy of a weak dollar. Falling housing prices. Low interest rates, courtesy of the Fed. Cheap labor (when unemployment goes up, hourly wages go down). My only worry is my investments, which could take a 20% hit, but then, that's what diversification is for. Moreover, falling stocks mean buying opportunities for me, and the potential for big gains when the recession ends.
Knowing all this, how will the government move to improve the situation? Give me more tax cuts, of course! What else?
So I say this to the people who stand to lose their homes in this crisis: You voted for those schmucks. Remember that in November when it is time to vote again.
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I Don't Believe this Guy Exists
[Read the article: I'm a brilliant scientist and I fear for the world's fate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, I am so brilliant! I know everything! My skills with gadgets makes MacGyver look like a child with toy blocks. Einstein? A third rate hack. Have Shakespeare memorized and can recite it backwards, don't you know.
I have mastered a fusion energy reactor in my basement but I haven't told anyone because I am tired of all those pesky Nobels littering my office floor.
I have no time for God. Passed Him in intelligence years ago. To be honest, God's pretty dumb. Could have created my own universe and done a better job.
And these poor, wretched, stupid human beings! How sorry I feel for them! They'll never be as great as I am. They can't take care of themselves, and I am too busy polishing off unified field theory to be bothered with them.
But that's okay. I studied the Bible, and I think I can bring people back from the dead myself. So hopefully, come Apocalypse, I can save humanity.
People, people, stop with the applause, you embarrass me! Just skip Church and come worship me at my lab bench. Services are held Monday through Friday 8 to 5, in my laboratory just off the Hahvahd Yahd.
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Obama Got Caught
[Read the article: Obama and Clinton on Reagan and Republicans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama has always broadcast himself as the candidate who brings people together. In that interview, he was doing just that. He was going after centrist voters by showing them that he, unlike more extreme liberals, is not knee-jerk anti-Reagan.
His words probably played well with moderate Republicans. They cost him with left wing Democrats. I think Obama can fairly say he was not outrightly praising Reagan, but let's be honest -- he was sweet talking conservatives.
That is what Clinton is trying to nail him on. The Clintons many not have been completely telling the truth, but Obama has not been telling the truth either in pretending his statement was not approving of some of the things Reagan did.
Reagan, interestingly enough, once admitted admiration for FDR, of all people. Reagan got away with this because his conservative credentials were so golden that there was no point in calling him out on it.
That is the place Obama has to seek. He shouldn't deny attraction for Reagan, he should say something like, "I liked his style even if I didn't like his ideas." He has to admit to centrism and insist that he is not going to race for the left and ruin the Democratic party the way the race for the right is destroying the Republicans.