Letter: R-J has twisted view of reality, economy

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 | 7:01 a.m.

Thanks to Las Vegas Sun Editor Brian Greenspun for responding in his July 15 column to the continued nonsense spewed by Sherman Frederick and the other "libertarians from hell" in the Review-Journal editorial pages. They have a wild, wild West mentality where it's every man for himself. The ideas they espouse would mean very few businesses would exist to buy their advertising. Few would buy their paper.

For example, basic economics tells us the better more people are doing, the better a community as a whole does. One of the primary reasons for the success of Las Vegas is the existence of the Culinary Union (of which I am a member) and other unions, not out-of-state millionaire business owners. The R-J hates the former and loves the latter.

During the nurse/Valley Health conflict, the R-J basically told the nurses they should sit down and shut up and take whatever they were offered. More recently, the R-J echoed the lies of "Labor" Secretary Elaine Chao about the much-needed "card-check" neutrality bill, which would have finally leveled the playing field for workers.

A thriving middle class means everyone can succeed. To comprehend that idea would mean that you understand that middle class is not someone making $150,000 a year, something beyond the ken of much of the R-J editorial staff.

It would take a continuous stream of letters to keep pace with the R-J's twisted view of reality. I guess it's amazing in a way that it can be so consistently wrong most of the time. Hey, maybe in 500 years when personal technology is so far advanced, maybe some of its ideas will actually be relevant. Come talk to me then.

Mike McCafferty, Las Vegas