Friday letters
Fox pens, divine intervention and more in today’s letters to the editor.
Pick of the day: America lost the election
Our country may not survive four more years
Rather than believe that the slim election majority represents any such mandate as claimed by Maxine Fraade (“Lost in a state of denial,” Nov. 13 Pick of the day), hear now the other 49 percent.
Thinking that America still believed in “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” Republicans proposed sacrifice, fiscal moderation and personal responsibility.
Instead, many voted for self-interest rather than for country. Some voted:
To keep the free stuff coming.
To keep borders porous, and free stuff coming to illegal aliens.
To keep contraception in health plans.
To keep convenient abortion-on-demand protected.
For continuation of union controls over a diminishing workplace.
To tax others more while paying no federal income tax themselves.
To defeat capitalism and corporate America.
For a utopian environmental dream without offering feasible alternatives.
For gay rights.
For secularism and atheism over Judeo-Christian values.
Not enough Americans realized the real issue was the fiscal and moral future of our country.
America lost.
JOHN L. CAHOON
BOONES MILL
November 16, 2012 - 8:14 AM
In response to Mr. Cahoon’s letter, I have this to say;
I did indeed vote for; keeping contraception in health plans, to keep convenient abortion on-demand protected, to tax others, to defeat capitalism and corporate America, for a Utopian environmental dream, for gay rights, and for secularism and atheism.
I admit it and am proud of it.
The part I don’t understand about Mr. Cahoon’s letter is where he says, “many voted for self-interest rather than for country.”
Why is he opposed to this??
When we talk about markets, we think of spending patterns as “voting” with our dollars. This is the feedback signal given to manufacturers showing what products we like/want and which of them we can do without.
Supposedly when we buy products in our self interests, this is “efficient” and good for the population and our country.
So when we vote our self interests in politicians, suddenly it’s “bad”?! Aren’t our votes in the political sphere the same as our dollars in the market place?
You can’t have it both ways Mr. Cahoon without being either a sell-out or hypocrite. Voting for corporate America and capitalism with our dollars is no more moral than voting for our elected officials that represent our self interests.