Some observations of a couple of items that caught my attention via my regular Sunday “treat”:
- Leonard Pitts shows his rational, compassionate side. I know, it’s a stretch, but it’s nice to know that even overrated, race-baiting liberal MSM columnists such as Pitts can be fair sometimes.
- Frida Ghitis is going to hear it from the far-left over her defense of Isreal’s actions to stop the Hamas-supported flotilla from parking right next door. Good for Frida, and good-luck fending off the lunatics.
- This letter to the editor is one of the most mind-boggling I’ve read in quite a while:
Re the May 14 letter We aren’t government: Carlos Lumpuy believes that the public sector is not us and that the private sector is us and provides us with everything.
It does provide us with goods and services, but the private companies that produce and provide them are just that, private. We don’t have unfettered access to these places. They are owned by a small group of people.
The government provides its citizens with services that are paid for with public funds, our collective tax dollars. This collective revenue is vital to our democracy and the transparency of our government.
A democratic government provides its citizenry with services that can benefit the majority, things like public libraries, national parks, free education. “Free” is not a word that the private sector has in its vocabulary. Its only interest is profit for the few.
Only a few “prosper” from the private sector whereas the majority can benefit from the public sector. The government is necessarily “us.”
NEAL BENZEL, Miami Beach
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