It was good to see that integrity and respect are not totally lacking. All right, nothing like redefining the concept of the American way of life. What our past presidents have employed as a solution has only touched on socialism. Not like what our current leader has proposed, to totally change the health care system in this nation to something you and everyone else would admit has flaws. What a solution.
Socialists call for redistribution of wealth through taxation.
Socialists want a guarantee of equal benefits regardless of effort, not a land of equal opportunity. In other words, if Joe works twice as hard as Tom, and Larry doesn't work at all, socialists want all three to enjoy the same benefits. MARK BUTZ Abilene Via e-mail Give Bush a break I know from experience that an individual is not at his best in a tense situation. Therefore, people should not think less of Gov. Bush for not rising to the occasion. I have a horror that unless day trading is not severely restricted, our nation will experience a depression even worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s.