Apology sought
While mostly I was disappointed that Apple felt it was necessary to preserve privacy rights in its fight with the government over access to the San Bernadino terrorist’s iPhone, I could somewhat understand the position. But the security of our nation could well have been compromised by Apple’s actions. After the federal government found a way to bypass the iPhone security technology, Apple’s lawyers said they “hoped the government would share this information with them” — essentially so they can build a better and more secure product. Apple put its capitalistic ideals ahead of national security and apparently believes this is acceptable. I hope the government returns the nonfavor to Apple so it will be forced to deal with the reality that it has a substandard security system on the iPhone phone. Now that a process to bypass it is out there, customers should be concerned.
I wonder if Apple’s response would have been the same if the attack happened on its corporate campus in Cupertino instead of the government-funded nonprofit office in San Bernadino? This sort of warped capitalistic ideology has no place in America. Apple should apologize to the American people for such an incredibly poor decision!
SIMPLE OBSERVATIONS
Why do I keep hearing how the Social Security system is going to run out of money, and yet we never hear that the welfare or food stamp program is going to run out, and yet the first group paid into the system all their working years for their money?
Why no raises for our military veterans or active military and we keep cutting our military personnel levels, and no raises for our Social Security recipients but we are not cutting off benefits and payments for illegal immigrants? We’re advised not to judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatic individuals, and yet many judge all gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Just simple observations.
TRY THIS APPROACH
Strong beer, weak beer. Warm beer, cold beer. Beer there, beer here. Don’t know much about beer. Here’s the deal: If you want to pass it (whatever “it” is), just say you’ll tax it and it will help the schools. Never fails!
FREE TRADE’S COSTS
Regarding “Global competition, free trade are important to U.S. prosperity” (Our Views, April 1): Free trade is important to our prosperity? At a time when most manufacturing has disappeared from our country? Not so. In the early 1970s, I had a 6-cylinder engine shell the phenolic timing gears. The following is where the parts I needed to repair it came from: timing gears, Spain; valve cover gaskets, Portugal; oil pan gaskets, Portugal; water pump gasket, England; rings, Germany; bearings, France. Today under the free-trade agreements, I challenge anyone to prove that any part of a car is fully manufactured in the United States.
China, Indonesia, European countries and many others have taken our manufacturing jobs through outsourcing by U.S. companies due to those free-trade agreements. I’m all for Donald Trump’s idea to bring those jobs back to the United States. We are now a service industry nation with no manufacturing capability. Service industry means low-paying clerical and food service types of jobs. I am fortunate in having one of the technological high-paying jobs through the security industry, but most equipment there comes from foreign countries. Is this what the U.S. wants, low-paying service jobs?