Ryan ChartrandAt the end of the article titled “Shh! Liberals Don’t Want Equality,” it shouldn’t have read “Jennifer Gilmore is a microbiology senior and a Mustang Daily conservative columnist.” Though these things are true of Jennifer Gilmore, a better description may have been something like: Jennifer Gilmore is a na’ve, white Republican with an egocentric lens to the world.
Words simply cannot explain Jennifer. How can her view of equality be to let the rich get richer while the poor of society rot away? Think for once. If we cut taxes for the rich, then one of two things has to happen. Either the government cuts something in their budget or the rest of us pay more taxes in order to make up for it. Assuming option A (since “the rest of us” probably includes Jennifer), our dimwitted president would probably choose to cut funding to poor communities, only fueling Jennifer’s idiotic ideal. Of course, the obvious choice would be to cut funds to something that’s lowering our nation’s trust in its government, killing innocent young Americans, and doubling our national debt, but we all know Bush will never stop his “war.”
All that said, I am happy that Jennifer wrote this article. In fact, I’m utterly ecstatic. Through sheer naivety and amazing foolishness she has turned many would-be-Republicans at Cal Poly into anything-but-Republicans; no one will want to be a Republican here knowing they will be represented by Jennifer.