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lOB Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011 Bulletin, Progressive, Record, Reporter
LETTERS. from page 9B
space here, I will try to
contact him separately on
that subject.
I think the real point of
disagreement between Mr.
Kailing and me is that he
frames current challenges in
terms of capitalism versus
socialism, while I suspect our
problems no longer fit those
terms.
We need to shake off old
theory. The influence of
Marx on how we think is so
subtle that most defenders of
capitalism today are not
aware that he essentially in-
vented that word. But he was
not just complaining about
income distribution. In
his day, welfare was a "con-
servative" policy. He argued
that capitalism was unavoid-
ably self-destructive.
He had little to say.
about corporations, since
Americans were just then
inventing the modern corpo-
ration. Only 'later did
corPorate ownership prevent
Marx from being right, by
keeping ownership more
widespread than he thought
sustainable.
How far from that world we
are today. If Marx could rise
and see "state led capitalism"
in China, it would kill him
again. But what would he or
(for instance) free market
champion Adam Smith think
of U.S. problems? Today, the
big money is in organizing a
circle of think tanks, media
and businessmen to get
Congress or regulators to
selectively suspend the rules
in your favor, then pillaging
a sector of the economy until
it collapses. Think S&L
crisis, Enron, the accounting
scandals, the housing hustle
and the financial collapse.
Someone called this
"Christmas tree capitalism."
Cut a healthy sector off from
market fundamentals, cover
it with tinsel and glitter for a
week, then throw it in
the yard to die. My only
objection to that metaphor is
that it is grossly insulting to
Christmas trees.
Scott Corey
Quincy
Intractable mess
"Residents blast proposed
health care cuts" (Oct. 19)
was correctly titled. It was all
about the blast and nothing
about how we got into this
intractable mess. The bene-
fits are wonderful; cost is the
problem.
Democrats cut Medicare
funding by $500 billion to
pay for Obamacare. CMS
(Medicare) is run by the
Obama administration, and
they won't listen to Republi-
cans. Why don't those
residents blast Boxer and
Feinstein and Obama?
Democrats herald Social
Security and Medicare as
two iconic victories of the
progressive movement, and
together they are bankrupt-
ing America. Today, our
national debt is approaching
$15 trillion; degrading our
future prospects. Without
reforms, SS and Medicare
will add about $74 trillion,
making $89 trillion our
grandchildren will face. We
cannot let that happen, but
Democrats have blocked
every Republican's attempt
to improve these programs'
long-term viability.
Both programs were
created when Democrats
controlled the White House,
House and Senate using a
communist model. That is,
earnings of current workers
are confiscated by govern-
menf and redistributed to
other people who are not
working.
Both programs were Sold
with false promises. FDR and
Democrats promised Social
Security could be funded
if workers and employers
each contributed a measly 1
percent of earnings. That 2
percent has grown to 12.4 and
SS is still going broke. If
SS had been established
with contributions going di-
rectly into private accounts,
retirees would enjoy much
higher payouts and SS would
never go broke. But Democ-
rats won't allow private
ownership at the expense of
redistribution.
In 1965 Medicare came
with another false promise
equivalent to: If workers con-
tribute enough to buy a basic
Chevrolet upon retirement,
they will be entitled to a
brand new Rolls Royce. In
1980 Medicare cost 10 times
what had been estimated.
Entitlements cannot exceed
our ability to pay. We need
entitlement reform.
Gene Kailing
Portola
Unearthed
On Monday, Oct. 24,
Geoffrey Christie, a geologist
from Virginia who has
studied the Indian Valley
area for over 30 years,
"unearthed" the geology of
our area for a spell-bound
audience of the Mount Jura
Gem and Museum Society.
He was in the area to collect
many 40-pound sackfuls of
our rocks to take back to
Virginia for analysis.
He compared the geolo-
gist's work to that of a CSI
investigator. Today, .much of
what is learned about our
earth is discovered by sophis-
ticated, scientific devices:
that tell fascinating stories
that would otherwise not be
known.
For instance, from crushing
and analyzing huge amounts
of rocks, the included in-
finitesimal zircon crystals
can reveal many facts of our
ancient history and tell us
how old &certain rock is.
The real shocker to me was
that our Taylor Lake area,
which is part of an ancient
extinct volcano, has rocks
that are similar to those of
mountains east of Reno. How-
ever, even more shocking is
the fact that both the Reno
area rocks and our rocks are
similar to those in the Las
Vegas area.
His research and that of
others has told us that earth
tectonics have pushed us up
from the Las Vegas area. The
same sort of action is going
on right now on the west side
of the San Andreas Fault.
Tectonics are pushing the
Los Angeles area to the
northwest.
Two nights after Christie's
lecture, the earth jolted
Taylorsville as a reminder
that it is still doing what it
has always done for several
billion years and probably
always will do.
Salvatore Catalano
Taylorsville
Dance, Tom, dance
To Rep. Tom McClintock,
I know you are busy, in
Congress and the national
budget js onyour mind. I ask
that you consider our "tiny"
budget problem at home.
Fifty-nine patients (in
your district) at the skilled
nursing .facility of Eastern
Plumas ttealth Care have
been cut off from funding
required to May in this
hospital. Your administra-
tive assistant, "Rocky,"
attended a townhall meeting
recently in Plumas County.
Our CEO Tom Hayes was in
attendance and asked for
any help from your office
to resolve the state's finan-
cial shortcomings for this
hospital.
. You did nothing, not evena
letter to the Center for
Medicare/Medicaid Services
(CMS) to save or support
EPHC,s plight.
Now, if I am mistaken,
please produce the letter you
cc'd to our CEO. If I am right
and you didn't send a letter to
CMS, what's the cost, dollar-
wise, for the 59 patients to get
your office to write a letter to
CMS? $100, $500, how much?
I don't like to shame
anyone into action because
it's alvays too little too late
and in this case you blew it.
Tom, I've held public office
and even if I couldn't change
a predetermined outcome, I
stood with those that brought
me to the dance. You, sir,
need to learn to dance for this
communRy and this hospital,
even if you step on our toes;
you have no concept of our
plight and the effects of your
inaction.
The Democrats in power
and running this bankrupt
state are ultimately to blame.
Cutting patient health care
while you fund your own
salaries is an Obama-nation.
The premature passing of
any one of these patients will
be on Democrat heads; it
seems "shovel ready" has a
whole new meaning for rural
health care.
Dr. Trent Saxton
Lake Davis
Fair share
Socialism and economic
equality. These are words
I'm hearing lately. "I think
someone who earned his
money ought to get to keep
it," wrote Mona Hill in last
week's paper. I'm wondering
if everyone keeps his/her
money, how we pay for
roads? Should we privatize
them? What about our local
schools? Do we pay for them,
through taxes, or privatize
them to profit-making corpo-
rations? What about parents
who can't pay the necessary
"fee" to send their kids to
schools?
What about our fire depart-
ment? Do we privatize it
to a profit-making company
and have members buy fire
protection? What about the
sheriff's department? How do
we pay for public protection?
Do people who can afford
protection subscribe to the
sheriff's department? What
about folks who don't sub-
scribe? Do we want health
care for all or corporations
making money from our
health care needs? I could go
on.
What is socialism these
days?
What is economic equality?
Do we all pitch in to pay for
the services we need? Should
we all pay a fair share?
Nance Reed
Quincy
Invitation
In response to B.J. Pear-
son's letter, I prefer to
remain a "public servant"
not a "politician."
Instead of carrying on the
"he said, she said" banter, I
invite B.J. Pearson to bring
his proposed "jobs plan" to
the Board of Supervisors
meeting, along with Larry
Douglas and anyone else who
has an economic plan for the
county. You can count on
me to ask questions for
the people I represent as I
consider that an integral part
of my elected position as a
public servant.
Lori Simpson
Chairwoman
plumas County
Board of Supervisors
Quincy
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