Thank you Professors Epstein and Thompson for declaring Nevadans depraved citizens. (The Reluctance to Tax Ourselves-Nevada’s depravity in Viewpoints of May 02, 2010). If this had happened in the biblical times, Jesus would have asked a non depraved one to throw the first stone. It is true that Nevadans could thrive with less gambling and more education and I am all for it. Yet our depravity in the name of some depraved ideology is well documented and we are always running a losing race against for more humanity and equity. Here are some examples:
• More than 2.5 million humans are declared depraved and locked up. Americans could pay $ 10 with their tax returns to educate them.
• We have half a million kids in foster homes that languish without any effort to educate them.
• We refuse to give healthcare to every American because it is the personal responsibility for everyone to take care of his health while insurance companies and drug companies fatten themselves.
• How depraved are highly educated fat cats like Bill Clinton, Edwards, Sanford, Ensign, Spitzer, Gibbons and countless others who use the system to play sex while our soldiers are being killed in wars.
• How depraved are those educated at Harvard, Wharton, Yale and Stanford who gambled trillions of dollars and ran the American economy into ground.
We definitely need to educate, innovate and preserve our culture. This could be done with a little less depravity but we will stay depraved. I feel pretty hopeless.
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