Letters to the Editor

Be involved before making claims

Dear Editor,

    This past week I was shocked to read the convoluted ideas and empty words to suffice an outlandish accusation and verbal attack on GCSU’s student government.   I commend the writer of last week’s rant on SGA and RSA for trying to voice their opinions, but making RSA and SGA the scapegoat for his or her own boredom on campus is merely a matter of their own personal idleness. 
    In order for your voice to be heard in those organizations, you actually have to show up to the meetings. It is up to you as a student to voice your own opinions and actually vote.  For someone to brazenly state that “the residential body is not only being misrepresented, but also ignored,” is a complete fallacy supported by nothing but apparent laziness. The idea that SGA is “continuing to satisfy their own political agendas” is ludicrous.
    The members of SGA have worked long hours to make this campus lively and enjoyable, their sponsorship of The Sweetwater Festival and The Fight Before Christmas are just a few events that have successfully satisfied the student body. Instead of a backlash to RSA and SGA, how about a quick “Thanks.” 
    My advice for this annoyed “supposed” member of RSA is to attend the meetings and voice their opinions in a mature manner.  If they are still unhappy with the outcome of their request, perhaps they should consider running for the morally upstanding and reverent SGA or RSA delegate position for the Fall of 2008. I don’t believe an emotional vendetta aimed at the merited students who run RSA and SGA is in order.  
    Sincerely,

Kaitlyn MacDonell
freshman

U.S. economy not threatened

    Dear Editor,

    Apropos your article “Democrats can bring needed change” by Jerry Calbos, Columnist, I am not going even close to the never ending and (aptly termed as) “ear bleeding” debate of democrats or republicans.
    I would like to correct my friend’s view on weaker U.S. economy vis-à-vis India & China. Let me quote an African proverb here, “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It does not matter if you are a lion or gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running.”
    This proverb is glove fitting to the fundamentals of any trade (domestic or international). Blaming U.S. slowdown on India or China is naïve, shallow and totally against the well established economic fundamental theories. David Ricardo (1772-1823) was an English economist who established the free trade theory of comparative advantage, which stipulates that if each nation specializes in the production of goods in which it has cost comparative advantage and then trades with other nations for goods in which they specialize, there will be overall gain in trade, and overall income level should rise in each trading country.
    In the words of Thomas Friedman, three time winner of Pulitzer Prize and author of “The World Is Flat,” (which was on the New York Times Best Seller list from its publication in April 2005 until May 2007), “…idea based workers do well in globalization and fortunately America as a whole has more idea-driven workers than any country in the world… That is why America, as a whole, will do fine in the flat world with free trade-provided it continues to churn out knowledge workers who are able to produce idea-based goods that can be sold globally and who are able to fill knowledge jobs that will be created as we not only expand the global economy but connect all knowledge pools in the world … Indian and Chinese are not racing us to the bottom. They are racing us to the top-and that is a good thing.”
    The problem for U.S. economy is not India or China but its own bad decision both at domestic frontier (sub prime lending) and at international frontier (war in Afghanistan and Iraq). The glorious nation of the USA is just a wounded lion who is temporarily constipated with the new ideas and leader, which would make it start running once again, the lion has been running a little slow and starving.
    And what is more dangerous and aggressive than a starving lion?
    Sincerely,
Aman Khanna
grad student

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