Editor,
In March, we were again graced with the presence of another right-wing columnist. Dixon Duval was angry (even by right-wing standards), and can one blame him? With the conservatives' last president an embarrassment, Barack Obama's victory definitive, if not overwhelming, and Republicans' stances in the polls at an all-time low, it's clearly not a fun time to be a conservative.
But let us take a look at what our UNM alumnus is saying. Duval has claimed now that George Bush is no longer president and that we can no longer blame the country's woes on him. Obama has failed, he says, and every time he does anything, the markets continue to plummet. What exactly do you think Obama can do about the situation? He has not even been in office for three whole months. What do you expect him to do, wave a magic wand and instantaneously solve everything?
Obama is going to need more than just a few weeks to sort out the problems caused by the past eight years of bad decision making. As far as Duval's accusations of Obama being the great wealth destroyer, it's obvious that he is thinking only about himself. The reason conservatives are afraid of wealth being destroyed is because none of them matured past kindergarten; none of them learned to share. They say, "It's my money! Mine! Waaaa!" How bad do things have to get before people stop being so greedy? Last time, it was a horrible depression - the worst seen in our nation. Will it have to come to that again? How many people have to go without education, food, shelter or just a measly tax cut to ease their troubles, to justify the 4-year-old mentality of all the Duvals of the world?
Take Duval's quote here: "Bill Gates' wealth does not diminish mine or anybody else's." Duval has two master's degrees, but apparently mathematics is not what makes him special. It is very complicated, so I'll make it simple. There are 10 acorns to be divided among Duval and Gates. The more Gates has, the less Duval can have. This is not a difficult concept, even for a political party that thinks the Earth was created in six days.
Now, before I get branded as some Marxist liberal, I should say that I'm not entirely sure that Obama is making the right choices, either. I don't know if this stimulus will work. I do know that our president is trying, and I am going to give him longer than barely three months before I start crucifying him and his policies.
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It is no surprise that a UNM alumnus would be opposed to such socialist stances. Simply look at the problems UNM has. Its leaders inflate their salaries at the cost of the University, its faculty and its students. Duval and his comrades don't want to share UNM's pitiful resources with us. Why should they want to do the same thing in the bigger picture?
Dmitri Glover
UNM student
