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The following statement --"We have an economy that is by almost every measure stronger and more vibrant than the economy of a decade ago, which pundits called the most prosperous time in human history. And yet a plurality of the people has been convinced by an administration-hostile media corps that we are on the edge of ruin" -- is the most simplistic and untrue statement I have seen made on your pages. The above may be true for those of the population (and the oil corporations) getting the benefits of the tax cuts, but so far as us people in the middle class (who are obviously intended to pay for those tax cuts) it is very unpleasant. We have lost any pitiful gains made during the previous "stronger and vibrant" economy during the pre-9/11 period of uncontrolled spending and tax cutting. Our real income has decreased consistently, as has our standard of living, in order to enrich the non-productive financial sector of this country.

I normally tout your pages as being pretty much the mantra of truth. I am going to have to rethink that altogether.

p>But then, I suspect a lot of Americans are tired of being bent over, lied to, and stolen from. And as each day goes by our eyes are opened a little wider. I am a conservative. But I hesitate to say I'm a Republican. It's becoming a shameful thing. br> -- Clay Routh /p>

You are sane. So are the rest of use who find objectionable the discourteous, hyper-intolerant behavior of the immature, uninformed, intellectually constipated, ideologically bigoted, culturally biased, divisive and humorless pouters, screechers, and howlers (PSHs).

At bottom of their behavior? Fear and the lack of respect for anyone, including themselves. The reasons? For the former, knowledge of the emptiness and untenability of their position(s). For the latter, could it be that they are predominantly, if not exclusively, moral relativists or situational ethicists, without the anchor of God in their lives?

That they attend or teach at universities is laughable. Genuine students of anything seek to expand their minds and embrace experiences. And a university, by definition, should be a diverse institution of higher learning created to educate its students for life. One wonders, though: What kind of putative "higher learning" and life? And to whose specific and general benefit?

That the PSHs might have slightest potential to be the political majority after the 2006 Congressional and the 2008 presidential/Congressional elections should make much more than just our bowels clench, because such upheaval would likely threaten our very security.

p>But, oh, would that political shift bring glee to the the mainstream news media, the French, the United Nations and the terrorists. And, of course, the PSHs. br> -- C. Kenna Amos Jr. br> Princeton, West Virginia

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