Letter to the editor: Greenspan who?
October 22, 2000
While watching the debates I saw something come out of our vice president’s mouth that really disturbed me. He says he doesn’t believe in censorship, but he wants to change the entertainment business and make it family friendly.
It is not the government’s job to make sure your kid doesn’t listen to BAD music or watch BAD movies or play BAD video games.
That is the responsibility of the parents. Our government has nothing to do with the way we raise our kids; it’s our job. Also our vice president seems to be a man of terms, such as affirmative action and censorship all sorts of things that depending on who you talk to can mean something totally different.
The governor answered a question dealing with affirmative action in his own words not terms that get thrown around all of the time. He said we need to get rid of stereotyping, and the government can’t do that the people have to do it. He said people too often rely on the government to do something for them.
The governor’s answer to how we get the 18-24 age group to vote was far better than our VP’s. The governor said we want people to tell the truth and to let the people make the decisions that affect us all.
Our vice president said something that middle-aged people wanted to hear; he didn’t even respond to us. It almost seems as if he doesn’t want us to vote. Why could that be? I don’t know because I don’t know a whole hell of a lot about our possible presidents, but I do know that it really doesn’t matter who the president is because, we the people, still hold the power and Alan Greenspan is the man, not our president.
If you don’t know who Alan Greenspan is please find out what he has done over the last eight years.
And if you don’t find out who he is and what he has done for us, please don’t vote, because the only thing that is worse than not voting is not knowing how it all works and still voting. Vote for who you think best represents our country, and that’s all I can ask.
Jason WiegmanSenior Transportation logistics