Why positive data produces little gain
Regarding “Job market steadily improves” (News, April 5) and “Economy sputters despite gains” (News, April 7), we get these same stories week after week, year in and year out. Our writers are missing the boat, or maybe it is the huge boats lining up to deliver goods we should be producing. The ships coming are so big, we have to lower the river in Savannah so they can get in.
I am not sure where the 30 million or so workers who are on permanent layoff fit into the Labor Department’s estimate of unemployed, but there is no chance of those workers going back to work in closed factories. The presidents and Congress have followed failed fiscal policies for 50 years. On top of that, the Federal Reserve has come up with a fantasy about creating jobs out of thin air with zero interest rates.
MITCHELL L. EASTER, CUMMING
Where is outrage over racial slur?
If Frank Kaminsky, a white University of Wisconsin basketball player, had directed an obscene racial slur at Andrew Harrison, a black University of Kentucky basketball player, instead of the reverse situation, the outrage would have been intense. The NCAA and NAACP would have demanded Kaminsky be suspended from playing in the NCAA championship game against Duke University, and he would be required to take sensitivity training. In this situation, there is no outrage against Harrison. There are no cries for suspension or sensitivity training. Racial and ethnic groups must not accept denigration as a one-way street. If they do, there can be no legitimate outrage.
JAMES C. COOMER, NORCROSS
Don’t send APS teachers to prison
As a 39-year retired school teacher who has won accolades on the local and state levels, I find it incomprehensible that a fellow Georgia teacher would be handcuffed and carted off to jail immediately after a guilty verdict on charges that did not include one of the seven deadly sins. The purpose of this letter is to voice an inability to understand what could possibly be gained by such action. The same feelings are shared by hundreds of Georgians. Sending educators to jail cannot be undone, but upon sentencing, an alternative to jail should be implemented.
MARY L. BREEDING, GREENSBORO
