Bernstein Hit Home on State of Social Services

My thanks to Harry Bernstein for his brilliant and incendiary piece on the meager state of U.S. social services.

One point that was missing was the culpability of U.S. militarism. A nation that cannot afford housing, child care, decent medical insurance or unemployment benefits but can afford to blow Baghdad back to the Stone Age is a nation that will deserve the opprobrium a bitter posterity will heap on its ashes.

Militarism generates immense profits for those who invest heavily in it, and the profit margin for social services isn’t so high. If the electorate ever woke up to the true costs of all those parades, we would have an interesting set of elections.

FRED A. GLIENNA, South Pasadena