Opinion

Editor:



I wish to respond to Catherine Spencer’s letter to the Journal Aug. 16, espousing Mitt Romney’s pick of Paul Ryan as his running mate. She says Mr. Ryan is one “with brains, guts, love of his country and one who believes in running this country according to the Constitution and our Founding Fathers’ vision.”

Let’s start with “love of his country” (leaving aside the brains and guts.) According to his budget proposal, many of the people in “his country” will go without opportunities to (a) eat (eliminate food stamps), go to college (dismissal of Pell Grants), be healthy in their elder years (making of Medicare a coupon program where, if you exceed your coupon amount, well, you’re on your own). Ryan will make sure all the wealthiest of us get further tax reductions to “create jobs” for us all. (How’s that working out for you, Mr. Romney, given your offshore accounts?)

Messrs. Ryan and Romney blatantly want the best “country” money can buy as to health, taxes, education. Forget about those poor and (marginally) middle class people who work hard and wish to rise in this society supposedly built on the ability of us all to do so. In fact, let’s forget altogether about the poor, never mind a middle class — the class which separates us (or so we say) from less developed countries who have but the rich and poor.

About the left’s supposedly “leftist socialist agenda,” is there any reason why we can’t all band together to make everyone’s life better by providing a more affordable health care system? I think you would say that it’s an infringement on your freedom to be made to pay into a national insurance system. I would ask whether you would take on the responsibility of paying such in order to provide all of us (including you) the freedom from the headaches and heartaches involved in our current system.

Let’s, all of us, give all of this some thought.

P.S. Would you please back up your claim that “Obama and his cohorts” give “diatribes against Christians, parents, Republicans”? Please provide quotes.



Suellen Reichenbach

Mancos

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