LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

you, fool us twice, shame on us.

We are the taxpayers and voters who hired the mayor and City Council to work for us. Let San Diegans have a say on our future.

could be housed, to their benefit and the homeowners’.

The reality is we can’t expect politicians to loosen their death grips on the monopoly they give themselves over our property rights.

(Jan.4): So San Diego Gas & Electric is doubling natural gas prices to ratepayers.

Look at the same day’s Wall Street Journal front page story, “Natural gas prices plunge on warmer weather forecast.”

Hopefully I’m not the only one to have seen this.

your question to the San Diego Econometer panel, Norm Miller from the University of San Diego said, “Delaying the age for Social Security benefits will induce extra years of working.”

What Miller is suggesting is that the federal government should be able to tell me when I can take my own money out of my own savings account. I think that fits the definition of tyranny.

diatribes intended? Well, I’ll be happy to spell it out. It is so a person so horribly confused never becomes the president of the United States ever again.

The letter writer likes some of the letters to the editor, dislikes others. She isn’t alone. The letters column, as I’ve noted, is the heart and lungs of the newspaper, the reason we buy the newspaper, the sine qua non of life, post-gutenberg. It should be contentious. We should dislike some of the letters. We should occasionally mutter under our breath, “Why did they print that damn fool’s letter?”

Please, gently but firmly, ignore the letter writer’s advice, and print those damn fools’ letters.