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Right on the money, except for the parts about the unions not being the problem, and that sub-par workers get fired. I've worked in unions for almost 30 years, and the lack of productivity by many of its members not only is widespread and costly, but it is difficult to fire them, due to onerous union rules.
-- Dale Mader

TIME TO UNDO SOME DAMAGE
Re: David Mark's After Allard:

It's terrific that Senator Wayne Allard is showing interest in the position of President of Colorado State University.

His eager submission of application and his lining up with other qualified candidates for the interview shows his agreeable willingness to follow the great American way of protocol.

Perhaps if accepted by the CSU Board of Governors, he'll be able to convince The Nature Conservancy to return some of the millions of dollars he secured for them (To partner with the U.S. Army in purchasing land in South East Colorado.)

It is our understanding that because the Army indicated they'd exercise eminent domain, TNC withdrew their co-partner capacity, leaving them with several million of those dollars un-used.

Since the TNC was the recipient of tax-payer dollars anyway, it'd be totally acceptable if they returned it to us via educating our young at Colorado State University. Or, while he's still our U.S. Senator, he could persuade TNC to do that... regardless.
-- Chuck & Roni Sylvester
La Salle, Colorado

DOOMSDAY CURSES
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Interesting Times Are Here Again:

Oh, dear me, here I am disagreeing with Mr. Tyrrell. I'm doomed, I tell you, doomed!

My British friends who read this will be rolling around the floor gasping for breath and holding their sides from unstoppable paroxysms of hysterical laughter.

Gordon Brown a model for economists? Hardly.

Now, is there such a thing as a "negative model"?
-- A. C. Santore

I almost fell out of my chair reading your endorsement of Gordon Brown. That man is the economic equivalent of Attila the Hun: He has spent years destroying individual and corporate wealth on a massive scale. He has taxed, borrowed and squandered unimaginable amounts of wealth, turned the public finances of his country into a horror movie, destroyed the pensions of millions of his own citizens and his regulatory failures have resulted in financial catastrophe for the whole British financial sector. Congratulating Gordon Brown is like calling a arsonist a model citizen for calling the fire department to report a burning building that he set on fire himself -- what on earth were you smoking at the time.?
 
America will have more than enough to worry about with the economic policies of Barack Obama -- recommending Gordon Brown as a role model isn’t throwing gasoline on the flames, it is throwing the contents of an entire tank farm. Take a long, cold shower before writing your next recommendation is my advice.
-- Christopher Holland
Canberra, Australia

The Chinese have a curse, "May you live in interesting times." With the financial bailout, world wide recession and the election of the rawest and most inexperienced man (of any color or stripe) times are about to become down right fascinating.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York