Editor’s note: This letter is in response to the column “Safety net strangles America’s future,” published in the Daily Lobo on March 7. In his column, David Bergeron argues the social safety net is supporting people who don’t truly need it and that “we need to fundamentally rethink what we want or need from government.”
Editor,
I think at this propitious time it would prudent, in view of the looming deficit and the great insight shown in the recent piece about the safety net strangling the future, simply to euthanize all the boomers and the infirm who blight our future, especially the retiring teachers who cause us such difficulty by giving out inflated grades and who exemplify the educated idiots who have such a hard time with clear thinking and impose their delusions on all the youth in the name of education.
All these useless eaters impose such a drag on us all that maybe some of these folks might show a jot of kindness by simply offing themselves voluntarily in the name of the greater good.
This is one darned good reason we should not ban handguns, which might provide a simple, expedient exit for these hangers-on, especially educators who mostly just cause people pain by imposing their idiotic ideas on the young — especially those young people who have only gone through third grade and have a greater wisdom not informed by boring and stupid books that should be burned and not read anyway.
Jim Burbank
UNM faculty
