Garrison Keillor may be accurate in his analysis of what is wrong in the country today in “A modest plan for saving the country. Thanks in advance for the applause,” (Commentary, Aug. 30), but he made it sound as if these problems were new and never existed before the current administration.
A high school math class of 42, teachers not being paid a decent wage, college kids graduating with a huge debt for their education, MRIs given indiscriminately, dumbing down the social sciences, sending our young to die in a war we don’t believe in anymore–all of these problems have existed in previous administrations and in many cases were never resolved. Keillor did not help the situation by making it appear that these problems are peculiar only to the Republican administration, when I am sure that he knows that they existed in Democratic administrations.
Keillor was right on the button when he said that the current administration’s hostility to secular institutions is insanity. I am not savvy enough in economics to voice an opinion on tax-cutting, but it has been done before and the country survived. His proposal to heavily invest in the youth of our country makes sense, but not at the expense of the over 50 crowd, whose experience is invaluable to society.
