| It's Not Marxist
Your editorial on
employee ownership of companies, “Employee Ownership
Can Help Build Better Firms,” was right on the mark,
right up until I choked on the last sentence, “It sounds
kind of Marxist, but it works” (ENR 8/18 p. 60). Employee
ownership obviously violates the most basic concepts of communist
doctrine. Employee ownership of the “means of production”
is not even remotely comparable to “state ownership of
the means of production,” and I guarantee you that “production
for profit” is the motive of those employee owners, not
“production for consumption.”
Know Your Enemy
The last sentence
in the editorial on “Deadlock Over Transportation Funding
Has Familiar Look” totally missed the mark (ENR 9/15
p. 64). You need to do some very serious thinking about the
sentence, “There seems to be billions available for adventures
overseas, but little for the people at home.”
The citizens of the U.S. on Sept.
11 observed the second anniversary of the beginning of World
War IV. (World War III was the Cold War which began after
World War II and ended during President Reagan’s term
in office.) The terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, were
not isolated, one-time, uncoordinated attacks on the U.S.
Rather, they were deliberate, well-planned, coordinated attacks
by an adversary that must now be hunted down and destroyed.
A peaceful settlement of the war is out of the question; this
is a fight to the death.
The armed forces of our government
are not on “an adventure” in Afghanistan and Iraq.
They are locked in mortal combat with a determined, deadly
adversary who wants to kill every “infidel” they
can find and destroy our way of life.
If we receive another blow such
as the one on Sept. 11, 2001, you won’t have to worry
about funding of any type because our economy could very easily
drop into a deep recession, if we are fortunate, or depression,
if we aren’t.
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