Letter: Fair deal must be demanded by citizens
Thursday, Jan. 11, 2001 | 9:22 a.m.
I agree that the Clinton/Gore administration has not done much to improve our lives.
Since Eisenhower we've been pitted against each other, buried in the day-to-day requirements of our meager lives in this Great Society, so that we've lost all common sense. We are letting corporations, politicians, government, lawyers and Supreme Court justices rape us.
They are getting away with it because, somewhere along the way, we lost our values, and because we have given up our civic responsibilities to be informed and to vote.
We have bred at will, have taken no responsibility for our offspring, have lived on welfare or on credit, have become slovenly, impatient and rude, and then we have the temerity to be amazed that the "new regime" we have raised is as ill-educated, greedy, self-serving and conscienceless as it is.
We deserve everything we're getting.
Yes, 6,000 people are moving here every month. Yes, charities are screaming for money. Yes, some of Palmer's friends are making the same wage they made 10 years ago. Yes, the homeless would agree that the Clinton/Gore economy sucked for them. But if Palmer believes for one minute that Bush/Cheney will do better, she is delusional.
No new regime will help us until we demand it. Fair play in modern-day American business and politics is nothing more than a quaint, archaic abstraction. I'm not holding my breath.
SUSAN HUFF
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