Housing Needs
As I was reading Jackson’s column, one sentence really stayed in my mind: “The law says that every American has the right to a decent and affordable home.” How can this be? In a free society, one is not guaranteed a decent and affordable home, one makes a decent and affordable home for one’s self.
Also Jackson figures that Kuwait city will be rebuilt before anything is done about the American inner city and he cites Philadelphia as an example of inner-city decay. Shall we throw more money at inner-city problems? It hasn’t helped in the past and I doubt it will in the future. Perhaps Jackson would prefer to live under the emir’s rule. Nobody said democracy and freedom were neat and tidy.
Even though I often disagree with what Jackson says and what he writes, I do think he would make a better candidate for President out of the Democratic Party than good old George McGovern.
KATHRYN M. WRIGHT, Long Beach
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