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    [FONT='Verdana', 'sans-serif']How TRUE!!!!!!!![/FONT]




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    letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2008 by Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills , CA . in

    response to the Wall Street Journal article titled "Where's The Outrage?" that appeared July 31,2008.

    Really. I

    can tell you where the outrage is. The outrage is here, in this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class

    woman. The outrage is here, but I have no representation, no voice. The outrage is here, but no one is listening for

    who am I?

    I am not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entire political movement.
    I am not a

    celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner the attention of the press to promote political candidates.
    I am

    not a film maker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can deliver misleading movies to the public.

    The outrage is

    here, but unlike those with money or power, I don't know how to reach those who feel similarly in order to effect

    change.
    Why am I outraged? I am outraged that my country, the United States of America , is in a state of moral

    and ethical decline. There is no right or
    wrong anymore, just what's fair.

    Is it fair that millions of

    Americans who overreached and borrowed more than they could afford are now being bailed out by the government and

    lending institutions to stave off foreclosure? Why shouldn't these people be made to pay the consequences for their

    poor judgment?

    When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchase only what we could afford.

    Believe me, there are much larger, much nicer homes that I would have loved to have purchased. But, taking

    responsibility for my behavior and my life, I went with the house that we could afford, not the house that we could

    not afford. The notion of personal responsibility has all but died in our country.

    I am outraged, that the

    country that welcomed my mother as an immigrant from Hitler's Nazi Germany and required that she and her family

    learn English now allows itself to be overrun with illegal immigrants and worse, caters to those illegal immigrants.



    I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here illegally. That the Los Angeles Public School

    District is in such disarray that I felt it incumbent to send my child to private school, that every time I go to

    the ATM, I see "do you want to continue in English or Spanish?", that every time I call the bank, the phone company

    , or similar business, I hear "press 1 for English or press 2 for Spanish". WHY? This is America , our common

    language is English and attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to fail and to marginalize those

    who cannot communicate in English..

    I am outraged at our country's weakness in the face of new threats on

    American traditions from Muslims. Just this week, Tyson's Food negotiated with its union to permit Muslims to have

    Eid-al-Fitr as a holiday instead of Labor Day. What am I missing? Yes, there is a large Somali Muslim population

    working at the Tyson's plant in Tennessee . Tennessee , last I checked, is still part of the United States . If

    Muslims want to live and work here they should be required to live and work by our American Laws and not impose

    their will on our long history.

    In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely delayed the

    publication of The Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones, a book about the life of Mohammed's wife, Aisha due to fear of

    retribution and violence by Muslims. When did we become a nation ruled by fear of what other immigrant groups want?

    It makes me so sad to see large corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the principles that built this

    country.

    I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political policy, yet appeasing Mahmoud

    Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are trying to do. An excellent article, also published recently in the Wall Street

    Journal, went through over 20 years of history and why talking with Iran has been and will continue to be

    ineffective. Yet talk, with a madman no less, we continue to do. Have we so lost our moral compass and its ability

    to detect evil that we will not go in and destroy Iran 's nuclear program? Would we rather wait for another

    Holocaust for the Jews - one which they would be unlikely to survive? When does it end?

    As if the battle for

    good and evil isn't enough, now come the Environmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they want to

    put a Bag tax on grocery bags in California; to eliminate Mylar balloons; to establish something as insidious as the

    recycle police in San Francisco. I do my share for the environment: I recycle, I use water wisely, I installed an

    energy efficient air conditioning unit. But when and where does the lunacy stop?Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off

    the map, the California economy is being overrun by illegal immigrants, and the United States of America no longer

    knows right from wrong, good from evil.. So what does California do? Tax grocery bags.

    So, America , although I

    can tell you where the outrage is, this one middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to do

    anything about it. I don't even feel like my vote counts because I am so outnumbered by those who disagree with me.



    Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Beverly Hills , California
    To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

    Thomas Jefferson

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    No comments, wow, nobody

    cares

    I find it curious, from the psicho-social point of view that the worse a group acts, the more

    easy is to break the rest of the society by imposing the obligation to not perceive a pattern within those groups,

    under penalty of "unfair" generalization.

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    Ayup, the same tricks seem to

    always work too. One group or the other has been using that technique for at least the last 20-30 years that I know

    of. When we point out the patterns we are always called bigots or worse. Isn't that an unfair generalization?
    To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

    Thomas Jefferson

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    I just got here and saw this.

    She's worried about taxing plastic bags? Maybe it has to do with all the sea life the bags are killing and

    this.
    Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.
    --Lazarus Long

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    Her rant seems to cover a bit

    more than plastic bags. Although I will admit that article you linked too makes it sound pretty bad. I do wonder how

    much plastic shopping bags have to do with it though.
    To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

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    I can't speak about plastic

    shopping bags, but a chunk of plastic wrapping that flew off a bundle of shingles and got caught in the high

    branches of a nearby tree while my neighbor's house was being reroofed about 8 years ago is still there...
    The opposite of love isn't hate.
    It's apathy
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    Quote Originally Posted by belgareth View Post
    Her rant

    seems to cover a bit more than plastic bags.
    True, but that part seemed to be the only part where she

    seemed clueless.
    Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mtnjim View Post
    True, but

    that part seemed to be the only part where she seemed clueless.
    No opinion as I am no longer in that state

    and only have a cursory interest in the budget issues. The rest I pretty much ignore.
    To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

    Thomas Jefferson

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