Cheer Up Charlies
Which Country Is No. 1?
RECEIVED Thu., Jan. 27, 2005
Dear Editor,
I'd like to ask the author of the article that says that we're not No. 1: So which country actually is No. 1? ["Letters @ 3AM," Jan. 21] If his point was to say that America is not perfect, well, duh. The list could have been called a list of things America needs to work on fixing. Instead he's comparing us to some utopia he imagines in his head. He makes a lot of statements that do not even compare us to any other countries and some that compare us to the whole continent of Europe. These do little to prove his point. Instead, they show his real agenda: Trash the U.S. If the U.S. is such a terrible place to live, then why does the author live here? And why don't all 300 million of us move elsewhere? Perhaps the author was having a bad day and drinking too much and shouldn't be writing "Letters @ 3AM"?
I'd like to ask the author of the article that says that we're not No. 1: So which country actually is No. 1? ["Letters @ 3AM," Jan. 21] If his point was to say that America is not perfect, well, duh. The list could have been called a list of things America needs to work on fixing. Instead he's comparing us to some utopia he imagines in his head. He makes a lot of statements that do not even compare us to any other countries and some that compare us to the whole continent of Europe. These do little to prove his point. Instead, they show his real agenda: Trash the U.S. If the U.S. is such a terrible place to live, then why does the author live here? And why don't all 300 million of us move elsewhere? Perhaps the author was having a bad day and drinking too much and shouldn't be writing "Letters @ 3AM"?
Edward Matthew Szumski
