Letters to the Editor: Communism is not the right answer
Issue date: 9/28/07 Section: Opinion
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Perhaps if Kristen Griffiths ("Communism: the best answer" Opinion, Monday) wants to live in a society where she has limited money and limited ways to spend it, where personal choice and decision is turned over to someone who knows nothing about her and the government makes all decisions for those both able and inept, she should move to the People's Republic of China.
While she's there, she should visit the labor camps and ask the little kids on the fast track to medical school if they had any other ambitions or even know what they are being prepared for at the age of 10.
Also, she should visit the bachelor villages that have resulted in forced abortions and governmental family restrictions.
Maybe one of the residents would be kind enough to share with her the percentage of their income that they give to the government in order to support the "gentle hand" of the programs placed upon them.
Griffiths aptly stated that, " … we have the freedom to make mistakes, and the freedom to make other people pay for them." I heartily disagree - we do have the freedom to make mistakes, but we do not have the freedom to make others pay for them.
This is a "privilege" granted by the socialist government programs in practice (Social Security, welfare, Medicare/Medicaid) that have been, over time, proven inherently flawed.
I would like to know if Griffiths is the only child in her family, or if maybe she would have been one of those aborted had the same restrictions that exist in China existed here.
I would also like to know what makes her think she is qualified to write a column in a newspaper, since no governmental assessment said so.
I would also like to know how Griffiths knows that she is not one of those people contaminating her classes and diminishing the value of her degree.
By what criteria does she, an architecture major, consider herself qualified to write on political, economic and social topics?
Certainly her ideal government would not allow this.
Sometimes, I look at my school's daily paper and wonder how some people come to form opinions that support the removal of the very freedoms they are utilizing.
I challenge Griffiths to find one communist society that gives the press freedom to write anything remotely comparable to her opinions.
Melissa Grosse
Communication freshman
While she's there, she should visit the labor camps and ask the little kids on the fast track to medical school if they had any other ambitions or even know what they are being prepared for at the age of 10.
Also, she should visit the bachelor villages that have resulted in forced abortions and governmental family restrictions.
Maybe one of the residents would be kind enough to share with her the percentage of their income that they give to the government in order to support the "gentle hand" of the programs placed upon them.
Griffiths aptly stated that, " … we have the freedom to make mistakes, and the freedom to make other people pay for them." I heartily disagree - we do have the freedom to make mistakes, but we do not have the freedom to make others pay for them.
This is a "privilege" granted by the socialist government programs in practice (Social Security, welfare, Medicare/Medicaid) that have been, over time, proven inherently flawed.
I would like to know if Griffiths is the only child in her family, or if maybe she would have been one of those aborted had the same restrictions that exist in China existed here.
I would also like to know what makes her think she is qualified to write a column in a newspaper, since no governmental assessment said so.
I would also like to know how Griffiths knows that she is not one of those people contaminating her classes and diminishing the value of her degree.
By what criteria does she, an architecture major, consider herself qualified to write on political, economic and social topics?
Certainly her ideal government would not allow this.
Sometimes, I look at my school's daily paper and wonder how some people come to form opinions that support the removal of the very freedoms they are utilizing.
I challenge Griffiths to find one communist society that gives the press freedom to write anything remotely comparable to her opinions.
Melissa Grosse
Communication freshman
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Timothy Mathis
posted 9/28/07 @ 3:55 PM CST
Well said, you're response to Griffith's insane article is basically a more in depthe version of my comment to her moronic editorial. It's good to see that there are other students at the University of Houston who have yet to have their common sense destroyed by Marxism, a economic theory which has failed everytime it has been implimented. (Continued…)
dan
posted 9/28/07 @ 5:03 PM CST
there is not a true communist society on the planet right now. nor is what kristen describes a communist society. and i agree with timothy about the amazing advances created under the capitalist system. (Continued…)
SS
posted 9/28/07 @ 11:39 PM CST
Hah... Wow. I'm pretty sure Griffith's article was satire...
Alex
posted 9/30/07 @ 8:04 PM CST
Well, I mean there are the Zapatista municipalities and various indigenous groups around the world still practicing, at least in part and when they can, the communist and less hierarchical systems that characterize the vast majority of the human past. (Continued…)
i beg 2 differ
posted 10/01/07 @ 9:36 AM CST
I hate communism as it bans freedom but Timothy Mathis's point about the internet is just flat out wrong.
(1) Some of the first universities which setup anything like the internet were state funded. (Continued…)
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