To the editor:

The bartender, Ms. Cortez, is becoming more of a pain in the neck than Hanoi Jane. Both speak of what they do not know. Jane Fonda ridiculed our soldiers that were fighting a war that McNamara and President Johnson did not let us win. Would the people of South Vietnam be much better off today if we had fully supported their effort? Absolutely! Look at the difference between North and South Korea. If we had bombed Hanoi like we did Berlin, it would have been all over, and South Vietnam would be free.

Now, to the bartender. She does not know that America was built on the Puritan work ethic which taught that work is good and it is the will of God for man to work. That belief made America a world power in only 30 years. We were equal to European countries that had worked for centuries to be where they were. Ms. Cortez told the people of New York to stay home and not work. Why go and work 70 hours just to put food on the table for your family?, she spouted. What reason could be better than that? Yeah, I know that Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels believed that kind of logic and wrote a book, “The Communist Manifesto,” while they lived off the money of Engels’ father who was an industrialist. When Marx died, only six people attended his funeral. When Hank Williams Sr. died, 20,000 attended his funeral in Montgomery, Alabama. That is the difference between a communist and in industrialist.

Under socialism, if you have two cows, you are forced to give one to your neighbor. Under fascism, if you have two cows, you keep the cows and give the milk to the government, then the government sells you some milk. Under Nazism, if you have two cows, the government shoots you and keeps the cows. Under communism, if you have two cows (which is unlikely), you give them to the government, then the government gives you some milk. Under capitalism, if you have two cows, you can sell one and buy a bull, then you will have a herd of cattle to either milk or sell for meat.

I am glad for a government of the people, for the people, and by the people. I hope the American people keep it while the uninformed run their course.

Thoughtfully,

James Brown, Spearsville Road