Sherry Allen – 10/2/09

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A state budget we can all live with; Sherry Allen; Beaver County Times; October 2, 2009.

Ms. Allen wrote three previous letters I didn’t critique. One (“Conserving water for future,” 1/13/08) asked us to conserve water (primarily by not eating meat) and another (“Say ‘no’ to push polling,” 2/10/08) complained about alleged telephone “push polls” by Republicans, and the third was (“Plant a garden to offset oil usage,” 8/1/08). In one letter I did critique, Ms. Allen gushed about a book she found “that has hundreds of ideas on how to save our planet.” In a partisan letter, Ms. Allen concluded with “Let’s endeavor to walk together peacefully.” In one letter, Ms. Allen related a story of disaffected Republicans voting for Mr. Obama. In another letter, Ms. Allen tried to compare abortion and war in an effort to promote Barack Obama over John McCain. Other letters from Ms. Allen were entitled “Let’s be proactive on the environment,” “Arena a valuable community asset,” and “Time to get behind health-care reform.”

Below is a detailed critique of the letter.

“Recently in Pittsburgh at the premier of his new documentary on the banking and financial industry, director Michael Moore began the evening by saying, ‘I can’t believe any of us made it through these last eight years.’”

[RWC] Michael Moore films are propaganda pieces, not “documentaries.” Here’s one other observation. Have you noticed lefties refer to conservative pundits as “entertainers,” but refer to Mr. Moore as a “documentarian?”

“We had a moment of silence. And then he said, ‘One out of eight homes in this country are being foreclosed. Every 17 seconds there’s a foreclosure.’”

[RWC] Given that premier attendees were hand-picked lefties, I’m reasonably sure no one stood up and noted the current situation is the result of the very subprime lending policies Mr. Moore and his audience promoted.

“These facts hit home. A friend who has a daycare hasn’t been paid for a month because our state budget hasn’t been passed. Another local daycare provider had to notify her mortgage company about her inability to pay.”

[RWC] Why is the state funding daycare businesses?

“Both agree that only a budget we can all live with should be passed. But how are these women and thousands of state employees going to keep their homes?

“I’ve always been inspired by my sister’s poster of a ballerina that says: ‘If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.’

[RWC] This is a nice sentiment, but it’s not true the vast majority of the time unless your imagination and dreams are relatively modest. For example, I can dream that I can fly like Superman, but I’m reasonably sure that no matter how hard I try, it won’t happen.

“Recovering from these injustices will be hard, but try visualizing our community coming together and surviving.”