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Wow! The "progressive" socialists at the Communist Urinal, I mean the Courier-Journal, seem to never tire of whipping that old dead horse - class envy. Consider two of the three editorials in the Sunday edition (5/13/01), "An irresponsible budget" and "Lumberjack laws." The first merely rehashes the tired old mantra of "tax cuts for the wealthy" - spelled: those who pay the taxes. And bemoans the plight of the poor and downtrodden, the old and "the children," who will starve, freeze, and generally die and do without if Congress - spelled: evil
Republicans - "allow" some people to keep more of their own money instead
of taxing them and "appropriating" - spelled plundering - and giving it
to those to whom it does not belong. There are other ways of addressing
the needs of the less fortunate, voluntary private charity comes to mind, that do not require the gun of government to be held to the citizens' heads, but the commies at the Courier seem not to prefer anything that might leave decisions, power, and/or money in the hands of the subject
population. After all, we might not do "the right thing" with our own money. Geez! Give me a break! The second piece, "Lumberjack laws," seems to - once again - imply that the logging industry wants nothing more than to totally defoliate North America. No mention of the fact that trees - a renewable resource - are the lumber industry's bread and butter; or that it is very much in the
industry's best interest to cut and use forests wisely. If the commies at
the Courier were really interested in saving the forests they might jump
on the bandwagon for legalizing hemp. Besides the fact that nearly anything which can be made from oil can be made from renewable hemp, there's the fact that it only takes about 1 acre of hemp to produce the paper of 4 acres of trees! Think what a crop like that could do for
Kentucky's tobacco farmers! No! Once again, the Courier-Journal's editorial stance is - predictably - more government, more force. Government should force lumber companies to leave vast portions of "our" forests untouched. So they could become prime locations for the ravages of wild fires no doubt. And, by all means, we must keep people out of "our forests" so as not to mare the
natural beauty, which no one will ever see since the taxpayers won't be allowed in "our" forests. What childish nonsense!
The third editorial ("Unbuckled Kentucky"), while it did not deal with
class envy per se, was, nonetheless, a prime example of the puritanical
and parental attitudes of the editorial staff. Seat belts save lives. Some people don't wear seat belts. Therefore government should force these people to wear seats belts - for their own good - of course. Father knows best! - or in this case, government and the enlightened boobs on the C-J editorial staff. But it was none other than journalist H.L. Mencken who once warned that: =93The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.=94 I'd say that's true. As Herbert Spencer once said: =93The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.=94 Considering the "victim"
status now granted by law to the American public today, as well as the
inane buffoonery emulating from the editorial pages of our newspapers,
I'd say Mr. Spencer hit the nail on the head.

Sincerely,

Claude A. Bohn
6700 Creston Drive
Louisville, Kentucky 40258