Spending Money

The letter from Bradley P. Kottke (March 2) regarding the auction sale of the Windsor wedding cake represents a type of thinking that is all too common today. Kottke’s statement that Benjamin Yim’s thinking in this purchase represents “the idiocy of people who don’t know the value of a dollar,” is, in effect, saying “the idiocy of people who don’t think as I do.”

For all Kottke knows, Yim might donate half of his income to charity. Even if he doesn’t, his money is for him to spend as he sees fit.

BURKE BELKNAP

Oceanside