NUCLEAR POWER
Iran must prove to world its trustworthiness
There should be no trade or other economic activity with Iran until the government proves to the world community that it has stopped enriching uranium, and has agreed to ship its uranium out of Iran for refinement.
Delaying action will definitely prove that the free world did not learn from the history lessons, and, god forbid, history is doomed to repeat itself.
Sorin Vainer, Atlanta
ECONOMY
Low minimum wage better than no job at all
Thank you for running Thomas Sowell’s “Government kills more jobs than it creates” (Opinion, Dec. 15). It is important to recognize economic facts when looking for solutions to economic problems. Continually hiking up the minimum wage can, as Sowell notes, hurt many of the people it is intended to help. It is better for them to get that much-needed experience at a very low wage than to be unemployed.
Denise Noe, Atlanta
CLIMATE
Population growth must be slowed too
Ellen Goodman’s “Climate: ‘Human’ factor missing in Copenhagen” (Opinion, Dec. 14) was very well-written and timely, and made an almost airtight case for tying reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to reductions in human population growth. She neglected to mention perhaps the single most compelling reason this idea seems to be such a taboo in this policy debate.
For many, human life and reproduction, and related policy are religious and moral issues. Birth control has always been among the hottest of hot-button topics. And discussion of controlling population at the end of life is no easier, leading as it inevitably does to.
Ms. Goodman is right that there can be no serious discussion of reducing human pollution, absent a discussion of reducing human numbers, or at the very least of slowing their growth.
Matt G. Leger, Atlanta
POLITICS
Palin more than hype; criticism is sexist
Re “Readers write” (Opinion, Dec. 8): I found a few things odd.
Firstly, that being a celebrity is now considered a bad thing. From T-shirts to hip-hop songs, Obama was a pop culture icon.
And apparently, working your way through school, and coming home to work on the semesters to pay for your education is “bouncing around.”
And to play down the attacks against Sarah Palin and her family as merely criticism of her qualifications is absurd. I have a feeling that if any other liberal woman was greeted with that kind of “criticism” we wouldn’t bat an eye at calling it sexism.
What I find most odd is that someone would take the time to write about how weak and full of excuses a private citizen is.
If someone is so unqualified, unskilled and just a bunch of hype, why bother explaining all of this? I have a feeling it is because even Sarah Palin’s biggest critics know that she is more than hype. If she wasn’t, they wouldn’t bother telling us she was.
KRISTINA FULLARD, Powder Springs
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