What I want to know from you is…
To the Editor:
This letter is intended for response by staff writer Dan Dick.
As a long-term member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Indianapolis (it was Indiana Central when I started), I am privileged to see “The Reflector”.
Your October 29 editorial, “What I want in my President”, was well crafted and thoughtful, but aroused my strongly held convictions, especially the sentence “He believed in capitalism, but he knew that the government must regulate industry.”
Obviously, that was your conviction. However, I doubt that you can prove it was President Roosevelt’s. Much more important I challenge your own conviction about your own conclusion. Let me ask you these questions: When you say or write “Government must regulate” do you mean our current president who, according to you, has not been a great president? Obviously not.
When you say or write “Government must regulate” do you mean our current Congress which has an approval rate lowest in history? I doubt it.
So who or what is “the government” to you? Who is it you want to regulate the industry? Do you mean all industry, like our university, or Eli Lilly and Company or Christel DeHaan? I would guess not.
My basic point is, Dan, somehow you or we, the American public, instinctively feel that “someone” should know better. Who in government do you feel fits that role?
In the United States of America, WE are the government. We should know better, we should fix it.
I would love to discuss, debate or argue your premise in print or otherwise. Such discussions might even make a difference in how we, the people, think, write and yes, even vote.
Very Truly yours,
Alex Carroll
Carmel, IN
