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Yes, the customer service rep who can not answer a simple question and makes no attempt to obtain the answer for the customer or the manager who fails to keep track of his inventory sufficiently to be able to fill a customer's order are annoying, but they are merely symptoms of a greater ill; creeping socialism. Socialism is the antithesis of capitalism and, if left unchecked or even encouraged, will destroy a capitalistic society and eventually the people who make it up.

Excuse this small diversion into politics, but if you like what you see around you and wish for more of the same, then just keep voting for socialist leaning candidates. At least we'll all have a house and a government job.
-- Michael Tobias

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ALL-TIME LOW
Re: Readers letters under "It Had to Be Said" in Reader Mail's Taken to the Clean Ayers:

Never. Never in my 74 years have I read the awful frustration and or resignation that this morning's letters illustrated. Beverly Gunn's was about as easy to recognize as a Diane Smith letter; Ira and a bunch of others echoed the thoughts: we've been beaten. Period. And not in a "fair fight."
 
The bad guys have won, are winning, and it hurts. Badly. And in the meantime, we see the schmarmy faces of utter creeps like Bill Maher, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Keith Olbermann (gee, he once was terrific on ESPN before he started taking himself so seriously) and the whole Obama "team" are equally nauseating. Nancy Pelosi too, of course. And countless others.

Our once great country has been betrayed. The incompetent inhabitant of the White House was so gutless he couldn't/wouldn't shut the borders, or even stop his own party's spending/"earmarks" in DC. Impossible to believe, but Dubya's actually as terrible a president as Jimmy Carter; the Iraqis are getting rich off oil revenue, and we're still financing their happiness? My God, what a dolt. He's even transcended Pierce, Buchanan, Tyler, LBJ and Grant in his ineptitude. That's saying a bunch.
 
Proof? Henry Paulson for starters.
 
No, it's sure not my situation that's disturbing, it's my kids' and their children, your families and their offspring, as this magnificent country flushes itself down the toilet. And the sanctimonious GOP puts a stop to Internet wagering while the government supports Lotto; tries to ban the Morning After pill, sweats gay crap? And stem-cells? Idiots. Talk about misplaced priorities.
 
In the meantime, even if there were some semblance of gutsy behavior among the supercilious Republicans, the pandering whores of the demented Democrats, the Daily Kos and Daily Worker seek to impose a terrible system that's failed 'most everywhere -- and they're succeeding?
 
Candidly, I saw it coming. The schools began catering to the lowest intellect fifty-plus years ago, and it's been downhill ever since. The demand for excellence disappeared. Then, in the 70's, "escaped" to Alaska. That didn't work either; the Lower-48 influences like the Sierra Club shut down logging, mining, and imposed all those weird restrictions on the Last Frontier -- and, yeah, I wanted the Alaska Independence Party to succeed too. Couldn't control our own destiny then, and we're still not drilling in ANWR!
 
Guess the next question is, who's going to write the history? Will it speak of we producers being outvoted by those seeking "Something-for-Nothing," the imposed "Redistribution of Wealth?" Or will the eventual readers be subjected to even more Pabulum Puke, Politically Correct garbage, seeking to justify the unjustifiable?
 
Hey, we'll probably split for Costa Rica or the Urca neighborhood of Rio so as to escape Obama's tax increases. Not waiting 'til November, we have the tickets. But, what the hell are our kids going to do?
-- frost

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CHARACTER COUNTS
Re: Mitch Gar's letter (under "Nobody's Innocent") in Reader Mail's Taken to the Clean Ayers:

Mr. Gar mentioned several problems the candidates have in their background. He concludes they all have this so let's move on and address more important issues.

Sorry, Mitch, but you miss the whole point in two regards. First, you think there is some kind of moral equivalency between these past incidents. Do you really equate the Keating 5 with a professional relationship with known domestic terrorists? Really?

Second, these incidents tell us something about the character and judgment of the candidates. When it comes to the highest office in the land, character always matters.
-- Garry Greenwood
Gearhart, Oregon

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MINE YOUR OWN BUSINESS
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s The Clown of Campaign '08:

Air head Joe Biden lived in the Green Ridge section of Scranton which, at least at the time, was where the rich lived. There were no coalmines in that section of town and in those days coal miners walked to work. While we know that Biden himself never went down the mines, I'm pretty sure neither his father nor grandfather did so either. The man is a jackass and certainly not the pride of this son of Scranton.
-- Jim
Scranton, Pennsylvania