Letter to AJC 5-14- 2012
Mitt Romney seems to have a problem with selective memory. He can't recall the bullying incident at prep school. He doesn't remember when he was a bishop in the Mormon church threatening excommunication of a lady if she didn't give up her child for adoption. He can't remember the incident when he insisted that a desperately ill women not have an abortion, even though she was facing a life threatening situation.
After some prompting, he seems to remember driving for 12 hours with his dog on the roof of the car, but he doesn't seem too fazed by it. He dismisses reports of all the hardship and pain he caused at Bain consulting when he eviscerated companies and fired people by the thousands to enrich himself and his buddies.
Mitt seems to slough off all these past sins. He seems to feel that he is entitled to treat people any way he wants . We can see it in his future plans for the country. If he is elected the rich will surely enjoy more wealth and privilege, whilst the poor, the weak, and gays will have to fight for survival, and females will have to give up all the gains they have made in the last century.
Tom
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Atlanta Deficiencies
Letter to AJC 5-9-2012
A recent visitor to Atlanta wrote about three major deficiencies of our city. Poor transportation, miserable education, and crime. They seem to be the definers of our metropolis and make all our lives that much less enjoyable. It is the civic responsibility of citizens grouped into a large city to ensure that everyone has access to good education, ease of moving around, and a safe and secure environment to raise a family. For many people in Atlanta, we are failing miserably in these basic goals.
Our traffic situation is abominable and our mass transportation is practically non existent. Modern cities pride themselves on state-of-the-art people movement systems while Atlanta and surrounding cities ignore the morass we are in, and and balk at spending any money to make the situation better. It's like the old saying "cutting our nose off to spite our face".
Our education system is almost the worst in the nation. Instead of trying to fix it we encourage an atmosphere of cheating, and then turn our backs on the less well off segments of the population and establish private schools for the rich which suck off dollars from the public school system. Yes classism is alive and well here, and money talks.
As for our crime situation; have we become inured to the constant drum of murder and violent crime that serves as news? What happened to our civic pride? Why aren't we tackling the underlying problems that have built this laissez faire attitude?
Time for Atlantans to wake up to reality and start behaving like responsible adults.
A recent visitor to Atlanta wrote about three major deficiencies of our city. Poor transportation, miserable education, and crime. They seem to be the definers of our metropolis and make all our lives that much less enjoyable. It is the civic responsibility of citizens grouped into a large city to ensure that everyone has access to good education, ease of moving around, and a safe and secure environment to raise a family. For many people in Atlanta, we are failing miserably in these basic goals.
Our traffic situation is abominable and our mass transportation is practically non existent. Modern cities pride themselves on state-of-the-art people movement systems while Atlanta and surrounding cities ignore the morass we are in, and and balk at spending any money to make the situation better. It's like the old saying "cutting our nose off to spite our face".
Our education system is almost the worst in the nation. Instead of trying to fix it we encourage an atmosphere of cheating, and then turn our backs on the less well off segments of the population and establish private schools for the rich which suck off dollars from the public school system. Yes classism is alive and well here, and money talks.
As for our crime situation; have we become inured to the constant drum of murder and violent crime that serves as news? What happened to our civic pride? Why aren't we tackling the underlying problems that have built this laissez faire attitude?
Time for Atlantans to wake up to reality and start behaving like responsible adults.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Bin Laden's death, one year later.
Letter to AJC 5-1 -2012
One year ago our commander-in-chief made the tough decision to send in the seal team to take down the most infamous terrorist of our time. He made the hard choice to put our military in harm's way to ensure we rid ourselves of this monster. He could have ordered a remote drone attack, or he could have listened to the nay-sayer's clamor, but instead he took the courageous path and today the world is Bin Laden free.
One would think that all Americans would cheer him on and be grateful to have such a strong decisive president who actually makes things happen. Instead we see Republican spluttering and denial as they try to denigrate President Obama's action in killing Bin Laden after 8 years of apathy by the last (Republican) administration. We are not fooled. It's clear that Romney and all the other conservative talking heads are only interested in themselves and their party ideology. It takes a strong man to admit that his adversary has succeeded. It's apparent that there are no strong Republicans anymore, just rich and greedy good old boys.
Tom
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