Letters to the Editor
Mulligas
Published Letters: 35
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French Recession
[Read the article: The French connection]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Its okay for Sarkozy to love American, but worshiping the American free market model is another thing. That model has been proven to be a faliure and hopefully after the next election it will be replaced by something that more closely resembles the French model that Sarkozy is trying to dismantle. The economic drawbacks of the French welfare state have been exagerated and a lot of the exageration is caused by misuse of economic statistics. Although worker productivity per person is lower in France then in the United States but when you factor lower percentage of the French population in the workforce and a lower average number of hours worked by French workers compared to American workers then the French worker productivity per hour is slightly higher in France then in the United States. The rate of employment in France among workers between the age of 25 and 54 is the same as in the United States. The relatively high unemployment among young people in France is partly caused by the higher percentage of young who stay in school and because of free university education and financial support French students usually concentrate on their studies rather then get a job. You can read about this in Paul Krugman's new book Conscience of a Liberal. Here is an article by liberal economist Mark Weisbrot about economic statistics that distort the picture of the French economy. http://www.cepr.net/content/view/1147/45/
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Kucinich
[Read the article: Bill Richardson's big ouch ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't forget about Kucinich! My dad was watching the debate and I he mentioned that Kucinich answered a question about why he didn't vote for the PATRIOT ACT by saying that he read it.
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Race and Class
[Read the article: Fantasies in black and white]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why don't know race and class would be mutually exclusive in considering inequality. If poor blacks are responsible for their own plight how do you explain that according to recent studies the gap between black and white families has grown in recent years. In 1974 the typical black family made only 63 percent of the income of a typical white family. in 2004 the typical black family made only 58 percent of the income of a typical white family.
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Kucinich and Gravel
[Read the article: The last Iowa debate (Thank God!)]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The debate wasn't worth watching since Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich weren't invited. How is it that when a majority of the nation and an overwhelming majority of Democratic voters are strongly opposed to the Iraq war that the two candidates who are the strongest opponents of the war not allowed in the Democratic debate? Sign this petition to make sure that Gravel,Kucinich, and Ron Paul are allowed to be in all future debates. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2489/t/5103/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=752
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Edwards is Good but Kucinich is the real deal.
[Read the article: John Edwards faces his day of reckoning]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In response to Debrajg Kucinich not Edwards is the one Progressives should rally around to save the American ideal. Kucinich is the only Democratic Candidate who proposes to do away with private insurance in the health care field entirely. Also Kucinich unlike Edwards voted against the Iraq war and Kucinich consistently voted against funding for the Iraq war. For those who think that Kucinich is not a viable candidate Kucinich recently won the poll of members of the Progressive Democrats of America carrying 46 states and forty one percent of the total vote. Remember New Hampshire voters who to vote for on Tuesday.
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His arguments don't make any sense.
[Read the article: "We're all fascists now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Goldberg uses many illogical arguments in his book to prove that National Socialism was a leftist movement which are contrary to the facts. WEB Dubois was never inspired by Hitler. After he visited Nazi Germany he wrote that he was disgusted by the discrimination against the Jews and the oppression toward women although he did make some bad predictions about the Nazis abandoning their racist in favor of an alliance with Japan which didn't turn out to be correct.
Saying that Fascism was a left wing socialist movement because Mussolini was once a left wing socialist is like saying that Neoconservatism is a form of Maoism since David Horowitz used to be a Maoist. By the time the Fascists came to power they had clearly identified themselves a right wing party. The name National Socialism was a misnomer and does not reflect Nazisms true ideological orientation. At the end of World War One right wing military groups called Freikorps helped to suppress uprisings by left wing socialists and Communists and many Freikorps members such as Reinhard Heydrich became staunch Nazis. Here is an article that helps to prove that Hitler was not a left winger. http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-hitler.htm
Also it is absurd to compare the Terri Schiavo case to Nazi Euthanasia. Terri Schiavo had lost most of her brain and was never going to recover. Pulling her plug was not the same as the murder of the disabled under Hitler. Their are many good books that show the differences between Fascism and Socialism such as Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti, Fascism and Social Revolution by British Communist R Dutt, and many of th writings of famed journalist George Seldes.
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The Real Womens Candidate
[Read the article: Why I'm still not for Hillary Clinton]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dennis Kucinich is the real Women's candidate not Clinton. He supports creating a cabinet level Department of Peace that would be responsible for helping develop policies on issues such as domestic violence, child abuse, and mistreatment of the elderly. Hillary Clinton is no more a progressive choice for women then Margaret Thatcher was.
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Kucinich, Gravel
[Read the article: The 2008 presidential mash-up]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What about Kucinich and Gravel? Kucinich has served in all three branches of government and at both Federal, state, and local levels, while Gravel was a senator for two terms and helped to get the Pentagon Papers published and abolished the draft.
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Kucinich
[Read the article: When principles aren't enough]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The only candidates in the race that are worth considering are Kucinich Gravel and Edwards in that order.
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What's so Funny
[Read the article: Ralph Nader's running mate is ...]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Theres is nothing laughable about Nader's campaign. I watched his announcement on Meet the Press and I know that he will try to bring important issues to the debate. Nader has nothing to be ashamed of and a lot to be proud of.