David Post provides voice of reason
Students at Georgetown University and readers of The Salisbury Post are lucky to have David Post as a teacher and editorial page columnist. Post represents the voice of reason in our polarized country, a man who clearly describes the strange things that grow in our current political landscape.
His latest column in Thursday’s paper, “Cut, cap and balance,” should be “Read, clip and save.”
Thank you, David. I look forward to your next lesson in political science. I have had my fill of political rhetoric.
— Pete Prunkl
Salisbury
Truly, the horse is out of the barn
As a constituent and a long time resident of his district, I know that Rep. Howard Coble is a smart and wise man who surely can understand that the current fight over the debt ceiling was ill-conceived, unnecessary and simply the wrong tact at the wrong time.
We are in dire straits. Whether one believes that government spending is good or bad, that government “is the problem” or that government is a legitimate force in the long-term health of the U.S. economy, anyone — especially someone with Coble’s experience and knowledge —should recognize that politicizing this debt ceiling approval is playing with a weapon of mass destruction.
We have already done irreparable damage to our standing in the world markets, and with every passing minute we are counting down to its detonation. Clearly Congress is at an impasse, and the only rational thing, especially in the world economy’s eyes, is to acknowledge that stalemate, raise the debt ceiling and move on to the process of truly addressing the real problems that are dismantling the U.S. as we know it — jobs, economic opportunity and fairness, and hope for our children.
Surely those in Congress who have even an inkling of an understanding of economic theory and the realities of our true economic situation can rise up, join hands and move on with this.
I totally respect conservatives’ political right to push their positions for the benefit of whomever they serve; however, this debate is not the venue. Truly, the horse is out of the barn, the money’s been spent, we have no choice but to float it to when the “next credit card statement comes” while trying to generate some true economic recovery so we can pay our bills.
— Alan K. Menius
Salisbury