Letters to the Editor
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Response to moira kelly
Ok, but the political party that is most aligned with gun owners and gun ownership is the party that has done the most towards dismantling whatever safety net was in place for Americans. Perhaps those that can be convinced that cutting the estate tax to benefit the Paris Hilton is a good idea by calling it "the death tax" and wrapping it up with a "God, Guns, and Gays" social issue smokescreen deserve what they get.
If an economic collapse leads to a New New Deal, would that be bad from a safety-net perspective? If not why fear a readjustment.
Americans have been living beyond their means for at least 20, if not 50 years. We can't necessarily keep this up--the world is getting sick of financing our profligate ways, the dollar as a reserve currency is in jeopardy, and we are in danger of oil producers disconnecting the price of oil from the dollar.
I'd say we should retrench before it is too late. And if that means that people can't make it with the way things are, perhaps they'll start voting in their own economic interest instead of falling for warmed over trickle down economics over and over again.