Letters to the Editor
ELYDOG
Published Letters: 487 Editor's Choice: 43
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Looking down on the working class...
[Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Union contracts have much more in them than just employment issues. Again, delegation is the key here. So the parameter for being elected is that you're not merely any old lawyer, but a constitutional lawyer! That will certainly bring frowns to all the other types of attorneys crowding our legislatures.
Very good. Clinton's understanding of corporations put her on the cover of Fortune magazine. That is exactly what many people are afraid of. Actually, it looks to me like she is better qualified to be the General Counsel of Citigroup than President of the United States.
So you don't think non-lawyes and regular people understand the constitution? You think only constitutional lawyers understand the constitution? So why is the Supreme Court full of constitutional lawyers who it seems do NOT understand the constitution? The truth is there are different philosophise of the constitution, which all 'lawyers' do not agree on. It is politics, actually.
I think you have elitist and anti-democratic prejudices. From a "Democrat." That is why I trust your party so much. Experts are not ultimately going to change this system - only the people are going to do it.
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Talespin
[Read the article: Barack Obama, working-class hero?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Retard"? Did you just graduate from middle school?
A president is not primarily a legal figure, he is the 'leader' of the country. This encompasses legal, social, military, artistic, scientific, historic and economic roles.
To point out that a president should be an attorney is like John McCain saying the next president must be a general. I think the next president should be a union leader. But it is certainly obvious that he has to be a ... generalist.
So here on a blog on Obama being a 'working class hero' we call someone standing up for the working class a 'retard' when they point out that the attorney role for so many politicans is problematic. Only proves my point. Maybe you should eat more hotdogs.
By the way, I am a 56 year old man who worked in blue collar jobs for 20 years, and now has worked as a paralegal for about 10 more, after 3 years as an administrative assistant and temp. And certainly, brought up a family on the way. So do attorney's play with me? No. And most people in my class have the same queasy feeling.
I agree with both Lenin & Shakespeare. Any survey of the millionaires and attorneys in office should give a sensible person pause.
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Mein Kampf
[Read the article: What is your literary deal breaker?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ayn Rand
Bridge of Madison County
Davinci Code
Love Story
Protocols of Zion
Left Behind
Bible
Koran
Torah
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The Speech we will be hearing from McWar
[Read the article: McCain's Vietnam obsession]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Ladies and Gentleman, I think we need to be in Vietnam for 100 years, if that is what it takes. We cannot let international communism enslave this tiny nation of freedom- loving peoples. To do otherwise would be to let our soliders and airmen die and be jailed ... in vain. I recommend an attack on Vietnam, and the capture of Hanoi via an amphibious landing in Halong Bay. Now I know you are thinking the war ended 33 years ago. However, the communists are still in power... etc."
In that war, the U.S. had total air superiority over South Vietnam. We had technological superiority numbering many different types of weapons. We had heliocopters swooping in to take out the injured and trapped. We had ammunition flowing in like rivers of steel. We had highly trained soldiers fighting both NVA and local guerrillas. The U.S. killed many many NVA and VC. These Vietnamese soldiers sacrificed their lives so that the U.S. would not control their country. But it was at the cost of oceans of blood.
John McCain is unfit to be commander in chief, because the 'lesson' he learned in Vietnam was to ESCALATE, and cause more bloodshed. People were horrified when Curtis LeMay said he wanted to "bomb Vietnam back to the stone age." McCain is more dangerous, because Curtis LeMay is nowhere near the presidency, and McCain is.
Oh, by the way, 20,000 Vietnamese women and their union went on strike a day or so ago at one of Nike's Taiwan-owned plants near Hanoi, demanding higher wages and better food. Maybe McCain can send in the Marines to protect Nike. Those damn commie union people ...
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Where is the SEC?
[Read the article: Paulson's bogus plan to regulate the markets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Andrew gets it right here. This plan is actually to get less regulation, if that is possible. The question we should ask is 'What About the SEC?". They are the people that have regulatory power to discipline, fine, subpoena, etc. The plan is that they are now going to be under the control of the Fed! And the Fed is under direct control of the banks and bankers. The people who sit on the board of governors of the Fed are hand-picked by the Republican Party from Wall Street's best.
The only real improvement is that more 'books' will have to be open. However, if the people reading the books have no power, than more information only goes so far. And if the information is couched in impentrable language, it will do no good. It also assumes that lack of information was the biggest problem. Greenspan knew and was warned for years about the housing bubble and predatory lending, which is the root of the failure of securitization of mortgages. This plan, by the way, is not to be instituted this year, according to Paulson.
Could we possibly have something more weak and useless come down the pike? Paulson puked on his shirt for all the nation to see.
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Bloomberg on it
[Read the article: Paulson's bogus plan to regulate the markets]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Susan Santilla at Bloomberg news has good article on the bogus Paulson 'reform.' She nails it too.
Essentially, securities' firm industry groups like SIFMA have been lobbying Paulson for awhile and seem to be happy with the result. Many of their suggestions were turned into policy.