Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks with host Anderson Cooper during a Democratic primary town hall sponsored by CNN on Feb. 3 in Derry, N.H. (John Minchillo, Associated Press)
Re: What Iowa caucus results say about millennials, Feb. 7 Ross Kaminsky column.
Ross Kaminsky asks why millennials see millionaires and billionaires as leeches. It s because so many of those people have been stealing wages from their workers for the past 35 years.
Whereas productivity has boomed during that time period, wages have remained flat. If the minimum wage had kept up with inflation, it would be $22 per hour. The mindless and harmful propaganda being shoved into the still-forming minds of millennials is that hard work gets you ahead.
Social Security, workers compensation, unemployment insurance, the GI Bill, the interstate highway system and the Department of Veterans Affairs are all socialist programs. The Pentagon amounts to $573 billion a year worth of socialism. Kaminsky should think about what our country would be like without these socialist entities, not to mention parks, fire and police departments, bridges and libraries.
David Kelley, Northglenn
Ross Kaminsky seems very puzzled why young people and liberals reject the message of the rich and powerful that he is touting. He seems shocked that many professors and teachers are liberal. Those who are liberal arrive at this approach to life from an inquisitive mind, from years and years of study of the sciences, history, philosophy and doing personal research. They do have an interest that their students do not end up being selfish, uncompromising, lacking in empathy, and ill-informed, an approach to life that gets us nowhere.
Kaminsky talks against mindless and harmful propaganda while he is dealing it out. Young people do not need to be deprogrammed, as Kaminsky says. They need to be encouraged to make up their own minds about their world by being inquisitive, well-read, and abreast of events.
Truman Sager, Windsor
This letter was published in the Feb. 14 edition.
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