Opinion: In Thursday’s Letters to the editor
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Readers respond an editorial on immigration, the sad state of the California budget, and to an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Thursday’s letters.
Los Angeles’ Andrea Scharf doesn’t like the Ahmadinejad coverage:
I wonder at and am disappointed at The Times’ and the U.N.’s willingness to give...Ahmadinejad a platform to spew his hatred. His vitriolic attacks should make him a pariah in a civilized world.
More disappointment, too, about the Wall Street bailout. Leonard Isenberg, of Los Angeles, blames both Republicans and Democrats for getting too close to Wall Street, and of creating a ‘de facto corporate-controlled two-party system.’ He continues:
If this was a real representative democracy, the government might freeze foreclosures for a year and--to quote Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.--make the chickens come home to roost on Wall Street, where they belong.
Adds Sid Fleischman, of Santa Monica:
I’ve finally become a believer in the GOP’s deified trickle-down theory. The $700 billion debt is going to trickle down to us.
*Photo of the Iranian president speaking at the United Nations on Tuesday by Jason DeCrow/AP Photo.