Letters to the Editor
bobr900
Published Letters: 620 Editor's Choice: 15
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Some Thoughts
[Read the article: Hoe, hoe, hoe]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]GK,
Many, many thanks for another terrific reminiscence. I love everything you write, please don't stop. I am 62yrs old and know of what you speak.
Thanks for the sweet thoughts about your daughter and the depth of thinking and concern you have for her and her life.
Reading your article I was reminded of working with my beloved grandfather in his large garden and the joy it gave me to spend that time with him and the joy I get remembering it.
All of my adult life was spent in a white collar job working as a school psychologist and being so dedicated to helping every child, done to the point that I after nearly twenty years of concern for them I just burned out and had to leave. Reading about your concerns for your daughter reminded me of that and though I had no children of my own I remember so well how deep and distressing that concern can be.
Arriving home after a day totally and fully invested in my concerns for the youngsters I had worked with I would rediscover myself. From that I learned the essential truth of keeping things in balance, something I usually failed to do.
Though I lost myself in the deep concern for the kids I don't regret it for a moment and regard it as the finest thing I did in my life.
Next I spent 17yrs in the world of sales and though I learned much it was never as rewarding. The company laid me off because I did not want to become store manager preferring to work with customers which to me was of greater value than pushing papers. My people skills and the resultant dedication to helping my customers was not valued by the company.
I have not been able to find a job for years other than Walmart which I could tolerate for only two weeks.
It seems there is no longer a place for me in this world, I just don't fit anywhere. So much for the corporate republican world.
My sense of values is completely and diametrically at odds and opposed to the America that Bush has created and which I totally reject.
GK, your article evoked that sense of the common good and the idea that we are all in this together which is long gone in this 'me first' America.
The devolving downward spiral of my beloved America will, I think, in the near future lead to an America I do not wish to be part of.
The theocratic, republican, neocons may well lead to a collapse and loss of many/most democratic values and institutions in America. The aforementioned powers that now have a stranglehold on America will either lead to our destruction or a revolution that may/hopefully bring we Americans back to the values that you so eloquently expressed.
Thanks to the values that my grandparents and my A generation (Great Depression and WWII) parents taught me I will survive as I will just expand my garden from six tomato plants and a few garlic and lettuce plants to dozens of each and a greater variety of plants.
My grandparents, parents and I have all lived on a minimal/modest income so I am prepared for what may come next. I think us moderates and left wingers may even survive better than the extreme radical right wing end timers.
Again GK keep up your always evocative writing.
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Lackeys For Big Biz
[Read the article: He really was a Fox News Democrat]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lieberman will lose in the primary today because he sides with the Bush/Cheney/Repub cabal. Moreover they use him to bolster their position on war issues and he allows them to do that. Lieberman could put a stop to that if he wanted to do so. obviously he does not.
The American people are finally beginning to see that they been played for fools by the Bush/Cheney cabal and are getting sick of it. Lieberman's patriotism and willingness to stand up for America is in grave doubt.
I don't know why he is this way but he is and thats the simple fact. Lieberman is clearly out of touch with his constituents.
By the way while I'm at it I would suggest the those Californians vote for Marcy Winograd to replace Jane Harman who is barely a Democrat and does nothing but support Big Business and thus does not stand up for the American people. We need fewer sellouts to Big Biz as it works hard to corrupt America.
And I'm not even a Dem, but I am an American.
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Judgement Day
[Read the article: Blunt vows a freeze on global warming fight]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One day when the Repubs can no longer deny Global Warming they will find a way to blame it on the Dems, I can just see it coming.
When Missourians are cooking in their southern heat they may someday decide that the college dropout in the Bush administration, who denied Global Warming, might just not know as much as 5,000 scientists with Ph.D's who are doing real research.
Those southern states along the coastline have flooded land to look forward to. Maybe then they will decide to become American citizens once again instead of just Republicans first last and always as they now are.
You right wing radical theocrats will someday realize that you have failed miserably in your stewarship of our God given planet.
If you die and go to our inevitable judgement it won't do you much good to say to The Almighty that you were Republicans.
Oh and BTW, the insurance industry has already left you members of the Bush crime family because they now believe in Global Warming and are preparing for it, just in case you didn't know that.
You white southerner theocrats can't deny it forever, judgement day is surely coming.
You people are pawns of the oil companies.