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YES, BUT THEY CHEAT ON PHILOSOPHY TESTS TOO
Re: David N. Bass's Generation Cheat:

"It took one generation, the Baby Boomers, to upend the social fabric of America and pave the way for political, economic, and social disaster

Not so fast Mr. Bass.  It took the so-called "Greatest Generation" to flush America's superior values down the tubes by not sticking up for us after WWII:  Roosevelt gave away Eastern Europe to Joe Stalin.  Truman lost Korea after it was won.  Johnson fouled up Vietnam.  While politicians were busy messing up government, the baby boomers' misnamed "Greatest Generation" parents were busy spoiling, coddling, and encouraging their kids to avoid the draft, avoid paying for the consequences of their behavior, and avoid every other kind of hardship.  They put that womanizing prima donna Jack Kennedy in the presidency.  Many of them voted with their jaundiced boomer children to put the Bill and Hillary in the presidency.  And I'm amazed at how many of these "Greatest Generation" types voted for the latest disaster to get into the presidency.  You do have a valid point.  When "influential" people refuse to stand on principal, and are otherwise lying and cheating and thieving; outsider people tend to do the same thing in their own ways.

Incidentally, I've been doing substitute teaching lately (rural schools), and am very heartened by the attitudes and practice of teachers and administrators regarding basic values of honesty and citizenship.
-- Carl Gordon Pyper
Monett, Missouri

I think the problem is "Thou Shalt Not Steal" is foreign to the young. "'It's your rule, not mine, and it doesn't have anything to do with me." And somewhere along the lines, parents, schools, and society have failed to integrate the philosophy with the child.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

SAFETY NET: THE POOR
Re: Doug Bandow's Extortion in Chicago:

The extortion in Chicago and Michigan is particularly galling since the "taxpayers" footing the bill for the dispossessed auto and window workers may in fact have no health care coverage of their own. What a dichotomy: those without health care bailing out the unions, whose record of worker abuse would surely raise some eyebrows, were they broadcast. The future indeed looks bleak in Obama's America.
-- Robert Mandraccia
Ft Myers, Florida

DR. DASCHLE
Re: Philip Klein's Daschle's Long March:

Daschle is one of the most snakey passive-aggressives I have ever seen, even worse than Mitchell. Reid doesn't come close to this viper with a smile! Of course we all know who is going to get stuck in this deal…Mr. and Mrs. American Taxpayer…we patients.

The docs saw this game coming: They've chosen to stay asleep while the dollars kept going into their bank accounts. They will stay asleep if such continues. Stop their bucks and their heads will appear quickly in front of television cameras denouncing the terrible reality of American healthcare! Ahh, those dangers that lurk just behind the white curtains!

Mr. Insurance Man has had this game planned for some time now. He knows how to get Mr. Taxpayer as the person of last resort. Playing "musical chairs" and with a final game of "hot potato," Mr. Insurance Man will direct our congress in the ways it wants to go.

Of course, now that Mr. Business Man has thoroughly trashed his image, don't expect our "medical entrepreneurs" to come forward with solutions generated from the "working for profit" community! They are presently being heavily tarred and feathered!

God forbid we design a new 21st century medical services model that takes into consideration all technologies, the vast expansion of certified medical personnel from simple staff to doctors, and employ a division of services readily available like the old corner store or gas station as entry level medical attention centers and providers!

Nope, let the government run this game for they are so good at what they do! Mommy and Daddy are here to help for your entire life!

This is what you reap when most so-called leaders in government are those who have gone to law school. Just read Plato's thoughts written over 2300 years ago on this group!