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p> FALLEN INTO THE CHASM br> Re: Jeffrey Lord’s Connecticut’s Shame : /p> p>Thank you for the article “Connecticut’s Shame.” I feel awful about what is happening in our country and grieve for our future. I don’t understand it and I am looking for understanding. I must stand with President Bush and Israel. I am 55 and I remember learning about the death camps as a youth. I asked my mother why they didn’t do anything to save the Jews, why the world — why SHE — allowed it happen. I remember saying I would never allow such a thing to happen in my lifetime. The Democrats are now on the other side. They are siding with the enemy and they don’t see the simple truth that we are entering WWIII. Their hatred of Republicans, conservatives, and the Jews is self-destructive and will destroy our country and world, I fear! I fear, also, that our union is threatened. Thanks again for the article. br> — Kathleen Mary Hensley br> Federal Way, Washington /p>

CT is enduring anxiety not shame. The state has no shame. There have always been and always will be anti-Semites. Some people openly express this and other anti bias. I do not believe the few have-no-lifers represent the people of CT in general.

My perception is the people of CT are suffering from acute anxiety rooted in their economic demise. New England is unmistakably loosing good high paying jobs and barely replacing them with retail or service jobs that pay a lot less. Everything else is going up including taxes.

Whose fault is this economic decline? The answer from the Democrats and some Republicans is our current President and thanks to the propaganda that passes as news, the Republican Congress as well. It’s as if he has some magic power to lower the cost of all goods.

In CT you cannot go after the President, so the next in line is Joe Lieberman. But the Senator’s troubles started with the 2000 (it was disgusting to some when he ran for two jobs) ticket and continued in 2004. He missed a lot of votes and seemed disconnected from his constituents. Add to this his unattractive personality and it was a recipe for disaster.