THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, December 6, 1995 TAG: 9512060009
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 37 lines
The juxtaposition of the Nov. 22 comments of Holly Sklar (``This Thanksgiving, Congress is carving up the American Dream,'' Another View) and Suzanne Fields (``Searching for family paradigm,'' Perspectives) offered a somewhat marked example of (a) the complex conflict of political thought and opinion at hand today and (b) in the case of Ms. Sklar, a fresh example of the demagogic rhetoric of the left.
Specifically, Ms. Fields (not exactly a spokesperson for the right) bemoans the negative effect of our confiscatory income-tax structure on the family and family values of two-income families, while Ms. Sklar stridently reasserts the implied premise that all earned income is in reality the property of government to be used primarily for income redistribution and, to a lesser degree, for the benefit of the earner. Her justification for this robbery is ``children will suffer hunger, illness and early death. . . . Social Security and Medicare are being undone.'' This is hyperbole, none of which is factual. Shame on her!
In 1994, the voters indicated an apparent desire for a philosophical change in political direction. I am not smart enough to synthesize the variant opinions of Ms. Fields and Ms. Sklar and therefore choose to ``stay the course'' with continuing support for the concept of the Contract With America, currently the cause of understandable ferment.
Let's just try something different, OK?
D. ROBERT TRUNDLE
Virginia Beach, Nov. 22, 1995 by CNB