Letter: Capitalist approach is a good way to prosperity

Bwa ha ha ha! (Deep-voiced sinister laugh). I’m a baby boomer, and I’ve pillaged America’s economy. So says Jim Tankersley of The Washington Post on the front page of the Nov. 8 TCH.

I’m not sure why we have to reprint articles from The Washington Post on the front page of our newspaper. We have capable people here in town.

Anyhow, I don’t like your tone, mister. You say I burned “a lot of cheap fossil fuels, filled the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases and will probably never pay the costs of averting catastrophic climate change or helping (my) grandchildren adapt to a warmer world.”

You say that our job market “delivered living wage work for wide swaths of Americans.” You say that “employees could reasonably expect to advance in their companies and work their way into the middle class.”

So you are admitting that the capitalist approach is a good way to prosperity. And, that the last eight years, rather than continuing a good thing, and creating hope and change for an even greater America, has created policies whose greatest achievement is cry for soaking the rich to make America better.

This story was originally published November 22, 2015 at 5:38 PM with the headline "Letter: Capitalist approach is a good way to prosperity."