Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor Another Look at Carter Your December article on the Carter Doctrine perhaps shows only a part of a policy of someone who I think is one of the most decent human beings to...
...T. Lyle Ferderber Valencia, Pennsylvania Northern Exposure Thank you for Barbara Miner's article, "The Stealth Depression in Black America" (January issue...
...I have always found it interesting that my peers and I tend to idolize the North as though it were some utopia free of racism...
...Soon he will cut Social Security benefits, followed by more privatization and lower payroll taxes, then a lower ceiling on taxable wages, and on and on...
...Hanna Garth Houston, Texas Your January 2005 cover was eloquent and moving...
...government bonds...
...I was born in Wisconsin, but currently my home is Houston...
...Roger Steed Dayton, Ohio Presidential Mandates Kate Clinton may have shocked some readers when she reported that 23 percent of gays and lesbians voted for Bush in 2004 ("Girly Mandate," January issue...
...Letters to the Editor Another Look at Carter Your December article on the Carter Doctrine perhaps shows only a part of a policy of someone who I think is one of the most decent human beings to have held high public office in decades ("The Carter Doctrine Goes Global" by Michael T. Klare...
...The Bush strategy, despite its coat of a different color, is to chip away parts of the system until it vanishes or gets pushed down to the states...
...We workers continue to contribute to the program with the hope, but no guarantee, that we shall receive the kinds of pension benefits that have been given in the past...
...We do not even get an IOU for our money, which has been spent as fast or faster than we have contributed it...
...Republicans have it...
...The 2004 exit polls also show that 13 percent of self-professed liberals voted for Bush, while 15 percent of self-professed conservatives voted for Kerry...
...What's going on here...
...Bush is using this approach on public education and environmental protection...
...Darwin Gamble Tallahassee, Florida Careful Words Ruth Conniff's article "Send in Mr...
...It is a true "picture worth a thousand words...
...This means fewer younger workers...
...But your article awakened me to the fact that these Northern cities are far from utopian havens and appear to be little prisons on Earth for America's black men...
...Carter had a larger energy strategy of moving us away from our total dependence on petroleum...
...The saddest part of this is imagining the continuation of Carter's energy alternatives on a national level and where we might be today if Reagan hadn't taken down the White House's solar panels as one of his first acts as President...
...Social Security has been structured as a flim-flam mechanism that has worked rather well...
...The reason it has worked reasonably well is that for the first fifty years, there were more people entering the work force than leaving...
...Rogers...
...the fund invested in U.S...
...All letters may be edited for clarity and conciseness, and may appear either in the magazine or on its web page...
...We who are pro-choice are the real pro-lifers and we've got to take back our language...
...I discussed this with a fellow organic farmer friend who ran Pennsylvania's Department of Energy Conservation during Carter's tenure...
...In those days, national manufacturers like Allis-Chalmers sold hydropower turbines from home size to industrial size, passive solar and earth-bermed homes were built, and there was excitement in the academic world over promising research...
...A similar essay could have been published with great validity in 1940, and every decade since then...
...As a result, workers paid into the Social Security fund...
...Congress probably can lower pensions at will, and it is doubtful the courts will save us from that unpleasant experience...
...I do not know whether it is good policy for younger workers to have the option to put a portion of their Social Security funds in a portfolio of open-market securities...
...Sonia Bell Sun City, Arizona Social Security Sham Your thoughtful Comment, "Save Social Security," in the January issue is a helpful contribution to what should be a national discussion of the future of Social Security...
...Republicans have mastered these techniques and were able to make Bush a "strong leader" and Kerry a "flip-flopper" in the minds of the voters...
...We and she should be saying "anti-choice" and not "pro-life...
...Thank you and congratulations to Owen Smith...
...government used the money that came from the sale of these bonds to fight World War II, to build public works, and to fight the Korean War, Vietnam War, and two Gulf Wars...
...They do this through repetitive rhetoric and symbol manipulation...
...Money flowed from the paychecks of workers through the Treasury to general operating funds of the United States government faster than fans at a World Series game pass through the turnstiles...
...That's just slightly less than the 25 percent of gays and lesbians who voted for Bush in 2000...
...The U.S...
...Letters may be e-mailed to: editorial@progressive.org...
...Marilyn Fitterman President, East End National Organization for Women via e-mail The editors welcome correspondence from readers on all topics, but prefer to publish letters that comment directly on material previously published in The Progressive...
...Robert E. Manley Cincinnati, Ohio Your Comment, "Save Social Security," was finely crafted with reasonable arguments supported by well-founded facts and forecasts...
...The United States government gives the Social Security Administration IOUs but, in fact, spends the money as fast as it comes in...
...was great (January issue...
...Democrats don't...
...I do know that floating the idea should stimulate the kind of public discussion that your Comment represents...
...Please include your city and state...
...We know from fifty years of social science research that parties and candidates can persuade people to vote against their apparent self-interests...
...It takes discipline to create images that win elections...
...Now, people are living longer, and the median population age is rising...
...Sadly, we're rendered virtually powerless to stop this motion through democratic means because of our "corporatocracy...
...The reason it is a flim-flam is that throughout its history, to the extent that it invested in anything, it invested in United States government bonds...
...Perhaps Carter's policy of oil protection was a rational aspect of understanding our addiction to oil while he strove to begin the practical process of finding realistic energy alternatives...
...But we've got to stop using their language...
...In those four years, his office mapped the state's hydropower sites, tested the entire state for wind power sites, researched and pushed solar here in cloudy Pennsylvania, and gave out numerous grants for alternative energy and conservation...
Vol. 69 • February 2005 • No. 2
