The May 8 Opinion section displayed a quotation next to the photograph of Charles Krauthamer, a conservative columnist for the Washington Post. With his typical arrogant smugness, Krauthamer suggested that liberals are "sawing on the branch" that President Bush has so bravely ventured out upon with his Social Security "reform" initiatives, and "as usual, Democrats are offering no alternatives. . . ."
In contrast, directly above this quotation was a column by Richard Cohen extolling an example of exactly what Krauthamer suggests is nonexistent: an alternative! Cohen was advocating a change that has been echoed by many as a viable fix for the supposed crisis faced by Social Security: lifting the income cap so that those who earn more than $90,000 will no longer be exempt from paying Social Security taxes on that income.
I hope readers are discerning enough to recognize that Democrats are indeed offering alternatives, but that the neocons discount any ideas that would not involve the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
-Julie Ryder,
Waukee.
I am disturbed by President Bush's plan to turn National Public Radio into another Pollyanna, cheerleading-type network like Fox "News" by appointing a right-wing ideologue to "reform" it. Bush needs to look up "reform" in the dictionary. It doesn't mean "subvert for propaganda purposes."
-John Christensen,
Storm Lake.
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