Web Letters: My Great Depression

This may a blessing in disguise. Sorry for the trite polemics, but we have deindustrialized our country to please the flawed idiocy of the globalist. All we had to do was send our industries to China and we could all share in the world prosperity. "A rising tide would raise all boats." Instead we have drained a clean-water lake to fill a swamp and we have ended up with two swamps. The millionaires would share with us, the laboring poor. Instead, the millionaires became billionaires on their way to becoming trillionaires. New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina was the quintessential example of what the country has become. The jingoistic phrase is "there are winners and losers in the new globalist economy," but we can compete by better education. Yup, we can all become greeters at Wall Mart after we lose our job at GM.

JAMES PINETTE

Caribou, ME

For myself, I am not depressed. I never trusted Wall Street, and I wouldn't take the 401(k) or the buy-out of my pension plan from LA County. So far, so good?

But for my country, I have been depressed for eight years and have a hard time sleeping at night. Three times, I swore to protect this country and the Constitution, but I always loved this country before I took any oath. Though I didn't always know that term, I have been doing historical analysis from an early age. What sparked my interest in history was to find out what worked in America, and what didn't work. It may sound like an ego trip, but I do know what works, and I am very frustrated that so very few people know what works. I also know that even if we hit the bottom, we can come back up again. We didn't start at the top! Never quit!

I'll be 71 next month!

Pervis James Casey

Riverside, CA