Better to ignore the screeds

Better to ignore the screeds

EDITOR:

Normally I ignore the screeds of such as Star Parker (Oct. 4), but her all too obviously twisted Soviet style spin doctoring of the recent housing market meltdown, was a bit too much. I was reminded of the cartoon from the early 1950s drawn by the British Cartoonist, David Low, satirizing the Soviet establishment. The drawing included a figure of Truth with her feet tied, and walking on her hands, the Soviet’s Upside-down Truth.Also, Parker is telling us that we kicked the Wall Street bankers investment bankers and brokers on the foot with the seat of our pants.

Wall street was playing ball with politicians working to turn our free country into a welfare state? Come on now, what they were doing is, was, and always shall be, called lobbying. And they were lobbying and making campaign contributions to gain advantages for themselves.

The bottom line is what it was always in the past, greed coupled with stupidity. Those have always been inseparable. Recent western history is replete with examples. One could start with the Dutch tulip mania, which is the closest analogy to the processes leading to the mortgage meltdown I can find.

Parker’s ignorance of U. S. history from 1929 to 1937, and from 1937 through the 1960s is mind boggling, or maybe she doesn’t want to know.

I would recommend that she should start by reading Adam Smith word for word and cover to cover for herself. She might be shocked. Then she should read about what mortgage practices were up to 1937, and how they changed after 1937, and how they wobbled back towards the pre 1937 concepts in recent years. But again, maybe she and her mentors don’t want to know.

JEROME K. STEPHENS

Warren

Liberals are easy to spot

EDITOR:

You really have to marvel at the modern day liberal. You know who they are — they live in the nicer homes, have at least one foreign car, they give to Emily’s List, the NAACP, the Sierra Club, and Common Cause. And they have an Obama sign in their front yard.

These liberals look upon America as a pernicious, chauvinistic, bigoted and oppressive capitalist state that has trampled upon the rights not only of the great masses of America, but upon the rest of the world. They are mortified that the socialists in Europe don’t like us. Liberals are just ashamed of America.

Not all that long ago, Michelle Obama decried: “for the first time in my life I am proud of America”. Of course, we haven’t seen much of Michelle since these remarks, have we? Nor have we heard much from Reverend Jeremiah Wright — that business of his “damning America” from the pulpit of Obama’s own church didn’t sell too good with suburbia or Appalachia.

Never mind that we have the highest standard of living in the history of the world nor that we give more humanitarian and yes, military aid to the world than any other nation, ever. Don’t dare bring any of this up; it just might call into question the wholesale “change” which the liberals have in mind for us.

Make no mistake about it: if the liberals get the chance, they will carry through with their promises of massive new tax increases, of an expanded federal grip on our lives, of a nationalized healthcare system, more bailouts of their friends on Wall Street and the gutting of the nation’s war fighting capability.

They would also reshape the judiciary by stacking the courts with far left liberal judges who would validate the liberal agenda that they wish to thrust upon America.

And oh, if you cling to your guns and your Bible, look out — that bothers liberals. They are extra leery of churchgoers.

FRED WERNER

Salem