Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 617 Editor's Choice: 9
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A good liberal would kill him/herself
[Read the article: I let my friends stay with me and now they're evicting me!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Given it's the least he/she would expect anyone else to do. Please leave the apartment and unless you're some kind of right wing barbarian, you should throw them a party and buy them a nice present too. Remember, liberalism starts at home. Your home, now get out.
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And when they all get cancelled in a month
[Read the article: TV's triumphant overclass]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You'll claim it's a big loss for televistic diversity in a sea of crap.
I watch CN's Adult Swim.
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It probably doesn't matter a whole lot who is President
[Read the article: Fred Thompson is just like you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We've ensured that America is pretty much peaked. Now contrary to populist belief, big powerful nations don't generally implode, they erode. It's a long slow process. But certainly, just as the 20th Century was "The American Century", this century is not. At the end of WW2, more than 750 million people lived under the Union Jack and in less than 20 years England was on the ropes, gasping for air and sinking fast. Now it's just that weird EU country that insists it's different and special. My children will living in a poor country. Oh well maybe it's time to emigrate. Screw the US, it's dying.
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None of this makes more energy
[Read the article: Chris Dodd pushes the energy envelope]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It simply assumes that somebody else somewhere else will get sick enough of being taxed to come up with some magical solution. And then of course, the environmentalists will hate that solution too and on it goes until the only practical solutions are unaffordable and the progressives jump up and down in a big love pile screaming about The Man and how it should all be free based on someone else's money paying for it.
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msgkings
[Read the article: Fred Thompson is just like you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm thinking Uruguay. 2nd highest standard of living in Latin America, stable government, good climate, solid economy, no frictions with anyone, not subject to the vagaries of global warming, most of the population is fairly homogenous and living in one place. A close second I think would be Portugal. Very very affordable for Americans.
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People have an enormous capacity
[Read the article: Craig to try to take back plea]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To forgive the people who hate the people they hate even if they're just like those people. Larry Craig will survive, politically, precisely because Idahoans hate gays more than they hate people who are the people hating gays for them, even when they themselves are gay. At least Larry Craig can thank the fat baby Jayzus that he wasn't caught abusing a dog. Because in America only furry pets have human rights and they'd have locked him in jail faster than you can say reacharound. Larry Craig will be with us for a long time and he will make his old homophobia look tame.
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So why is it
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you don't automatically embrace all those people who can't afford their own car loans. After all, Repo Men have been around a long time. Is THAT a deep dark plot too? I say there should be no more private ownership of anything. Free everything for everyone!!!
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You're starting to sound like Soviet television
[Read the article: TV's triumphant overclass]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everyone put on your babushkas and trudge to the GUM store to wait on line for something. All hail the Rodina!
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Well one can question that too
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For what it's worth, A son of a friend of mine volunteered for the Marines and specifically asked for the most dangerous job of all - truck convoys. We don't wish him harm but you have to wonder how that thought process worked. Well you should at least, anyway if you're in any way concerned with those people. We don't kidpnap young men off the street and impress them into the army. Anyway, that's not really the point here.
The point here, is what exactly do you do with people who are literate, educated, reasonably sophisticated, probably own stock, a 401-k etc etc etc and now because of their own greed or boredom can't or won't or can't be bothered to consider the ramifications of their own actions particularly when any idiot walking down the street would tell you that when things look too good to be true they probably are.
Similarly look at the average middle class child (27 is the new 16) who comes out of college with $20k in credit card debt and $160K in school loans. 1) how bad do you have to screw up to do that 2) why would we imagine that you're not responsible for that 3) you perhaps should have taken a different path, maybe state university if the payback on your degree is so limited. In other words, no one says you can't study 14th Century Italian painting it's just that the cost-benefit of that is so restrictive that you might have taken a lower cost path to that goal. Not everyone is 'entitled' to an MFA from Bennington just because they want it.
So we have this whole class of home 'owners' - renters really, almost squatters who insanely and stupidly decided that living beyond their means on someone else's money was the right way to go. Nothing else occurred to them as an option. Not living in cheaper place, or saving longer, or refinancing or being more prudent. Nothing. Had to have it, no down 120% interest only note. Which in an of itself is not a terrible thing if you actually invest like a speculator and can absorb that risk. But playing with your own home ownership speculatively is a painfully stupid thing to do. And you are a painfully stupid person for doing it. You are not automatically deserving of protection.
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Do one do the other.
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyway, it's not always axiomatic that you should let all poorly run businesses fail. It might be comforting and it will get you applause on the campus brickyard but in fact industry and government have a necessary, complex and symbiotic relationship with one another. To simply wave your black t-shirt and shout Death to Tyrants is probably not much, as actual solutions go.