Letters to the Editor
dogu44
Published Letters: 156 Editor's Choice: 7
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Milhouses of the world unite!
[Read the article: "We're all fascists now"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This tired old crap again. It's as if he never read a history book but only cruised 'em to get a handle on some of the terminology so he could write up a book report that proves his dad was the most decorated war hero ever...pathetic. He hold hands with that other Milhouse look-alike at the National Review...oops, I meant both of 'em and they both do look like that character from the Simpsons, Milhouse.
It never occurs to him, and I guess I could apply the same criticism of the left, that they really believe that it's all about them versus us, all on a one single linear spectrum. Projecting a 3 dimensional form as a shadow on a wall means you can imagine anything you want, but if you won't really look at and try to understand that which creates the shadow it leaves no option for discussion, which of course, is exactly what this crying baby really wants.
Anyhow, for all Goldberg's faults he is an example of the same kind of nitwit historical reappraisal the left does as well.
It sure would be nice if we could just package him and the other uni-dimensional lame-brains into a museum of intelligence so stupid it makes you laugh, but unfortunately, we're too busy watching sports and celebrity scandal while trying to do the same thing this joker does to such topics as religion, psychology, environment or economic theory.
We're doodly doodly doomed!
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And our dismal savings?
[Read the article: Why do the Chinese revile Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr Fallows mentions the great disparity between what we in the US save and it stands in stark contrast to not only the imposed 60% that the Chinese put away involuntarily, but the 25 to 30% that the Indians, Korean, and Japanese people as a nation do. A typical American finds savings such a dull and unproductive thing to do with their money and ultimately are taxed (punished) for doing so. Imagine the change in the financial landscape if individual working families were offered a really great deal on saving, limited to an amount similar to their SocialSecurity "contribuiton" with great interest and tax free, sorta like what big investors get by buying wonderfully protected and guaranteed bonds. I might find the idea of a high rate of interest a better deal than the latest in expensive gadgets and shoes with LEDs which it seems is where the potential savings are squandered now.
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Stomach turning display...
[Read the article: The Noxious Fruits of Hate Speech laws]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]..for a couple of reasons.
The thought that I find myself on the same side of an argument like this with Mark Steyn and his ilk is mind-bending.
That both progressives and neo-cons constantly advocate laws to address their provincial perspectives (hate crime versus patriot act...both suck big socks) is equally unsettling.
As these issues ferment I find myself, as do more and more people who are slowly but surely pulling the wool away from their own eyes to see that every law is an invitation for someone from outside your sphere of family and community to interfer with your life in ways that make you powerless and impotent while degrading the things that made our lives enviable in the first place...so enviable that wooden headed religous fundamentalists who believe in the hypothetical right to kill people who act in ways proscribed by their brain injured cult founders a thousand years ago and more, and would like to see secular laws replace so that could "better" society..a civilization so free we even admit religous fundamentalists...even moslems. Please...consider the libertarian position and perspective and consider a world where we live in a world of free ideas and actions and one in which one can, conceptually put the boot to where it will do some good on the backside of idiots like these relgious leaders and their zombie followers.
Shame on Canada..Shame on US...Shame on the western world for bowing to the empty idols of ignorance.
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Do we understand corruption?
[Read the article: Ron Paul rolls in Michigan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In a lot of the discussion (if you can call it that) about Ron Paul I always encounter the allegation of futility in Ron Paul's libertarian approach because, it is said, that without a big powerfull government bureaucracy to keep big business in line, big business will abuse the system and the people.
Perhaps if we realize that big business, while it will naturally take the selfish and self-preservation instinct to extremes, given the chance, it has also come to rely on the big government for a significant portion of both the power and wherewithall to exercise its corrupt designs.
I would like to see the people starve the bastards wherever they exist, whether in the bureaucracy itself or in the board rooms as they plan their next lobbying efforts to ram through legislation corruptly designed and soon destined to become law!!!
You'll find that very few lobbyists who advocate less government regulation are actually thinking about regulation itself but how those regulations can channel power into their clients back pocket...the revolving door through which "the decider" will soon pass, just as his father, a powerfull board member on Dyncorp's directorship, has done and continues to do shamelessly, knows this and so he and his cronies are not really interested in making govenment smaller but more profitable...and more responsive solely to the guys with the money, and more and more we see that isn't "us".
Ron Paul may not be the answer but he is definitely a step in the proper direction for freer people and a more responsible and transparent government and a more just society in general.