Editor,
Andres Saenz, Don Schrader may be called an Albuquerque fixture. What's interesting is that your response fixates upon and into individual style or level of thinking that has held us back from progress and momentum of which we are or all can be equal in.
Papers can be recycled. To me, the narrow-minded views you hold about sexual preference are your own. Maybe he is gay, but who cares? The fact is, poverty at 50 percent is normal in New Mexico, and your naivete about history and repressive ideals are misinformed. He isn't a problem, but you praise a government that currently is. As for wasteful paper and offenders of Earth, we've all contributed, including me. I had to breathe this morning, but I went on.
Back to waste management. How can you claim to care about people who are native when you say primitive is bad? American Indians and their cohabitants are worthy of equality, and only recently they, women and a couple of races gained the power to vote. If it weren't for those primitive ancestors, we wouldn't know a past, gained our current level of advancement or provided an unbreakable code the Japanese couldn't hack. Now, hack is a bad word. Computers, phones, iPods and MP3 players are a distraction for progress in an ever-increasing government shutdown, fallout, breakdown, bailout, control, etc.
But you state government programs designed to help people are good? Now I'm confused. Do you believe the government infrastructure is better than our computers secretly being shipped to India and China was good for the economy? Or are you saying that advancement is good and we, as Americans, have prevented environmental disasters? At least papers are more recyclable than computer parts.
If all decided to live like Schrader, it wouldn't hurt me, considering the primitive manner in which modern society has proved doing things with superiority. But that superiority has jaded your thought process. How can you still believe modern society has improved things while our ancestors made water run uphill? Then our agriculture departments allow starvation to exist, all while some senators, representatives and farmers collect government funds to not grow food.
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To prove my point, your praise of government has increased taxes for contributing more time at work to benefit the workplace and owners, all while government overtaxes and makes the workman or woman to not wish to work overtime. Lazy is what my generation and the younger generation have become. We should be active in government so that less reliance on that entity is possible.
Lastly, public transportation and education was segregated all those years for the Anglo Saxons, all to take advantage of your ancestors' and my lands, resources and water. If you were born here, as I was, I hope you can understand more now.
Gilbert Mireles
UNM student
