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'Pile another embarrassment:' Uninformed misses Metro handle
What the hell does DTW stand for?? No where in your blog do you give the entire name. As a former newspaper journalist I give you an F in composition!
MG:
You can give me an "f," but I refuse to take it. Ever flown in or out of Detroit? DTW is the international designation for Detroit Metropolitan Airport, which used to be "Detroit-Wayne." Hence, the handle. Thanks for asking.
-- DCH
'Pile another embarrassment:' Uninformed voters beget 'dumbest' elected officials
You are on target as usual. Only problem with this column: Most of the people it's directed at can't read. It's a perfect example of the Detroitification of America. More and more illiterate people are simply pulling a lever based on slogans and zero reading or thought about the candidates or their background, there by giving us the dumbest possible people elected to serve.
BC:
Spot-on. The problem isn't information. It's an appalling lack of critical thinking and what voters do -- or don't do -- with the information as we speed down the slippery slope. In Detroit, in the 'burbs, in Michigan, in the nation -- doesn't matter. The willing suspension of common sense, of recognition that government money (with the exception of Treasury printing dollars) actually comes from one place, and one place only: private-sector jobs.
Voters are free to be ignorant. They're free to elect pols who will demagogue business. They're free to elect pols who'll pursue policies that will pull more dollars into public coffers and aggregate government power at the same time. They're free to elect pols who show they don't understand, by their actions, how incentives work in a market economy or how business people make decisions on hiring and firing, investment and expansion. But voters also are free to pay the price, as the nation did in the 1930s. Business held its dollars, reduced investment and delayed hiring. They called it the Depression.
-- DCH
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