‘Politicized’ money policy unsupported
When Paul Krugman accuses those on the right of politicizing monetary policy (“Monetary policy is just as political as any other area,” Opinion, July 14), he is, as my Mexican friends would say, “The donkey talking about the size of someone else’s ears.” He uses reduced interest earnings by the top .01 percent to explain why a “coalition of economists, pundits, politicians, and financial industry moguls” oppose current monetary policy.
The top .01 percent is doing fine. Their lower interest earnings reflect both lower interest rates and a shift in their portfolios to equities. Saying reduced interest earnings is why some oppose current policy is one of the most blatantly political and unsupportable claims from him to date.
STEVE HAVEY, CUMMING
Securing border first is false choice
Kyle Wingfield’s and Mona Charen’s essays perpetuate the narrow-minded and solution-evading false choice of “secure the border first or not?” (“Border crisis shows that leniency isn’t always kind,” July 10, Opinion; “Unintended results from Obama trying to be nice,” July 11, Opinion). We have the means and moral obligation to improve border security and provide recourse and resolution to illegal immigrants already here.
President Barack Obama’s use of executive options to relieve suffering in the face of House Republican inaction and obstruction are not the cause of the current crisis. Wingfield and others conveniently overlook those profiting from this situation: the drug cartels now taking over the very lucrative immigration “coyote” market, cruelly taking money and children from Central America with false promises of safe haven in the U.S. Wingfield and others need to avoid the trap of believing that correlation implies causation.
KURT OHBERG, ATLANTA
Gun critics right to show emotion
I tried to read this without any emotion and ended up being angry, upset, unhappy and critical (“Guns’ critics appeal to emotions, not fact,” Opinion, July 11). First, what is so wrong about having emotions regarding gun laws? My brother’s life ended because of a gun-carrying person. You want to talk emotion? I’ll be happy to talk emotion as I wipe tears. The definition of “bar” is any counter where drinks are served on the other side of the counter. Bars open on Sunday? Every bar at a restaurant can be open on Sunday. Deaths happen with alcohol and guns, in bars, restaurants, churches, streets and in homes. One death from a gun is too many. Emotions do not make me blind to facts. They help me understand facts better.
JACKIE GRAVES, GRAYSON
