Opinion: In Friday’s Letters to the editor
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In Friday’s Letters, readers express their thoughts about John McCain’s announcement that he would suspend his campaign, and -- yet again -- more than a little skepticism about the Wall Street bailout.
In what may be a first for this page, Arthur Saginian of Saugus writes that he, for one, would welcome a recession:
...I hope Congress doesn’t bail us out of this mess. I hope we stew. I’d like to see what would happen. I’d like to be reduced to a diet of TV dinners, watermelon and hose water. I’d like to drive the same car, wear the same clothes, live in the same house and sit on the same furniture (while watching the same television set) for the next fifteen years. It would be a bit of a relief, actually. I can say this with complete honesty because I’ve lived this way before, and to tell you the truth it wasn’t all that bad. It was a slower and simpler life with fewer modern conveniences, but we were closer and happier, too.
Responses to the rail bill and Sarah Palin’s debut on the international stage, too.
* Photo of John McCain by Spencer Platt/Getty Images.