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You're right, Mr. Wheeler
Let's close the prisons. Let's get rid of all the citizen weaponry. Not only guns, but knives, too. We only need knives for meat, and that isn't good for us. Everything else, properly cooked, can be eaten with a spoon. That eliminates the need for household sharpening tools so they can't be used to make spoons into weapons. Let's spend the money on education and welfare. We know that works! Then we can get on about our business of fairness. We'll have a National Health Card so we don't have to fear about that. The card can contain a "chip" to provide a dossier on everyone. National heritage, DNA factors, blood types, IQ, education levels, mental illness, licenses, political and criminal activity can all be recorded. Employers cannot hire without the card. When voting, the card can automatically update a voting record. It can be downloaded to a Federal Register whenever the card is used for any purpose. No more responsibility dodging. An individual's location and activity is always known. Need to identify a particular segment of society? No problem. Control, that is what is needed. This country has gone for too long without it. We will have nothing to fear but fear itself. A prison without walls. That's what we need. We'll teach those criminals and gun owners about freedom from fear. Wouldn't Stalin and Hitler have loved it! Eldred E. Denny Villa Park
Supports Illinois Toll Highway Authority
I'm sure it requires the least amount of effort to jump on the bandwagon and blame an agency like the tollway authority for showing insight by fulfilling a simple supply and demand function. Check your economics book; the baby boom generation continues to reproduce and seek better living environments. It is obviously the people's preference to live in less congested suburban settings. The fact that the toll authority is supplying the needed transportation paths for that demand is only the action of a progressive agency fulfilling a need. This does not mean they are responsible for the destruction of Chicago, as you implied. I think our state politicians are quite capable of that themselves. Yes, it's true that we in Illinois are used to dragging our feet when it comes to political decision making and therefore are shocked by forward movement of any kind. Typically, a solution to any given problem takes years of deliberation, miles of use for election purposes, and then plenty of finger pointing once a decision is finally reached (if ever), at which time the solution is usually outdated or not adequate to address the need. Many of us, however, are thankful for the toll authority's swift planning and execution in expressway construction and are happy to see somebody take the lead. "It doesn't take a Ph.D. in urban planning" to see that if Chicago would solve its crime, school and related problems rather than fueling them with short-sighted prospects such as gambling, fewer people may be looking for other alternatives to city living. But that's a term paper for another day.
Jeannine Worthington
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