Ryan ChartrandI just wanted to comment on one of the articles in the March 10 paper. I cannot remember the exact title of the article, and I do not have a copy, but it had to do with the cost of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The news teaser on the front page said the cost of the war would exceed $27 trillion! Now I know this was probably a harmless typo, but the thing is, it’s not so harmless!
I found this fact hard to believe, so I flipped to the page of the article and read further because I knew there was no way the cost of the war could exceed $27 trillion by 2017. However, I know many of my fellow students might not have the time to read more. Some people might just look at the front page and think, “Oh, that’s typical of the Bush administration, he’s going to cost us $27 trillion!” Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Bush is the best president ever, but he is far from the worst. The last thing this country needs is for the media to paint more negative pictures into the public’s minds. People are too easily influenced in today’s increasingly lazy society to have people in authority feed them false truths.
Instead of running articles that focus on projections of things that have not happened, why not look at the facts of today? I want to know how many people are leaching OUR (this means all tax-paying people in this country) country dry. I want to know how much the lazy, drug-addicted, free-loading bums suck out of the social security, medicare and welfare systems. I admit that there are some people that truly do need the help of their fellow mankind, but what happens when more and more people start using and abusing these systems? A few hard working tax paying people cannot pay for the laziness of others! Please publish more articles that help people realize what is going on today, and how we can fix things, not some bologna that prejudice lazy politicians concoct.
Nic Vanherweg is a crop science junior and a guest columnist for the Mustang Daily.