Letters to the Editor
lburgler
Published Letters: 50 Editor's Choice: 1
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@dcitti
[Read the article: No Texas-size victory for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Some people say he won insofar as he caught up and erased a huge lead.
But that's based on polls. Who knows?
In any case, either democrat is going to inherit the ashes of George Bush, and all their "issues" will have to be shelved to deal with a 9+trillion dollar deficit and the impending retirement of the baby bombers (78million americans). No one's getting universal healthcare any time soon.
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the worst vice is advice: you need luck
[Read the article: Now that I've got my master's in writing ... I'm not writing!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]you have to persevere, but you'll always need a great deal of luck.
take cary tennis for example. his/her advice always has the exasperated tone of, say, ron paul, without any of the delightfully irreverant content. the result: he sounds like a freshman in college giving his eye-rolling peers spiritual advice after dabbling in eastern philosophy. he consistently has fewer letters posted on his column than anyone else, and seems incapable of guile or even flat out humor.
yet cary has a job. a writing job. an advice job! who knows how much he's paid. how did he get that job?
luck? or another uck, with a big fat "S".
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tax cuts
[Read the article: John McCain runs for George Bush's third term]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]tax cuts would work really well in conjunction with job training, but we can't really afford either right now.
1/4 of americans are going to retire soon, and they'll need benefits
thankfully, enough of them will eat themselves to death before requiring funding.
but we have unfunded committments upwards of 60trillion in the coming years, a 9trillion deficit already, and an imploding economy that's going to erase trillions in speculated wealth.
if the world were the O.C. california, the US would be marissa's dad. the guy who hangs out with rich people, buys fancy cars, securities, memberships, but he's broke and counting.
taxing is only the solution if you have a responsible government. otherwise you're paying out your ass for stuff that isn't worth anything. high taxes can be equally devastating to the middle class.
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the great thing about obama
[Read the article: John McCain runs for George Bush's third term]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]unlike mccain and hillary, i don't think obama could be corrupted even if he wanted to be
can you really imagine him on corporate jets all the time, schmoozing with young female lobbiests, or cackling at some screening or charity promo in the hamptons.
i know he's done private charity promos, but i have the feeling that he knows just how long to grin and bear it, how long to bide his time. look who he married: michelle clearly hates white upperclass nastiness. she could have parlayed princeton and politics into some pretty crystal events, but she hasn't. when he's president, he'll be no bullshit.
now, i can totally picture the clintons and their hedge-fund buddies laughing at jokes about how gullible the little people are. mccain? forget it. he's already cracking.
and that, if anyone is listening, is obama's appeal: the ability to go from talking like guy across the diner table to voice booming down from the heavens without stopping in between for a wink wink
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wealthcare
[Read the article: The crash in Republican economics ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the public leans left during downturns, and leans right during upturns.
unfortunately, it's when the market is doing well that we can afford social programs, and when the market is doing poorly that we need to pay our debts.
we're talking about a nation-wide enron. bad loans hidden in fake companies (VIE's) and deficit spending with no sign of letting up. how can we afford healthcare now?
this year was the first year americans spent more on chinese imports than the federal government made in tax revenues. obama and clinton can sing it to the rafters, but unfortunately we are no longer in control of ourselves.
there's no reform that's going to convince the global debtors that own america not to make their margin calls.
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hyde park is...liberal?
[Read the article: The crazy uncles in Obama's attic]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anyone on Salon ever heard of Milton Friedman?
Anyone ever BEEN to Hyde Park? Or looked at a demographic map?
Hyde Park is a 90% white island in the middle of the South Side, much like Columbia University.
It may be liberal, but the Chicago School of economists is the home of libertarian free market economics.
It is socially liberal, but fiscally conservative, and therefore as right-wing as it gets.
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so po mo
[Read the article: Are urbane tomboys truer feminists?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the utopian ideal of moving "beyond" gender roles is itself a luxury only priviledged femmes can afford.
which i think is the apt point my girl TCF is making when she mentions $200 jeans.
hipsters embody......
wait, sorry- i have to clean some vomit off of my keyboard before it gets stuck in the cracks
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Inflation
[Read the article: Who the hell are Heidi and Spencer?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know that I used to buy a celebrity magazine once a month an keep it next to my toilet where it belongs for some quick and mindless garbage intake while I relieve myself of other refuse.
I don't remember which magazine I bought- I just know that it was $1.99 for a few years.
Sometime last year they jacked up the price to $3.00
So what? It's only a dollar more! Well, 3 rounds up to 5.
$5.00 is only a few cents less than The Economist. I refuse to pay essentially $5 dollars per month for shit when I could spend the same amount supporting the work of people (like myself) who have toiled through grad school and inconceivable misery to publish articles.
I doubt I'm alone there.
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talking about gender
[Read the article: I'm no bigot, but you should meet my buddies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]if every white person were forced to marry a black person if they wanted kids, families and tax breaks, then race would be a dead horse issue too.
gender issues usually get aired on the pillow. but its their banality that makes them so dangerous.
we'll never talk about gender issues on a public stage anymore, except mentioning the word "gender".
that's not good news.
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ewww
[Read the article: Are women biologically drawn to older men?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]old guys are, like, totally gross.
PUKE!