Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.insight From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: CORRESPONDENCE Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 13:30:17 EST Message-ID: \SE CORRESPONDENCE \HD Congress Has Become a Club for Ombudsmen Eric Felten's article on Congress [Cover Story, Oct. 19] was excellent. It is very easy to forget that the vast majority of problems congressmen solve have been caused by the legislation Congress passed . There will be a new congressman from my district this year, and when Felten said "today's legislator has devolved from statesman to ombudsman," he nailed the problem on the head. The likely winner here will be just that. Michael P. Valencourt Cheektowaga, N.Y. "Aiming to Please the Folks at Home" provides further evidence that our politicians have pandered to the electorate's basest desire - to have everything at no expense with no sacrifice. "Privatization" is a word all voters should, as an old Latin teacher of mine endlessly intoned, "read, mark, learn and inwardly digest." It has become painfully evident that this country has developed appetites that are too large for its available resources. We seem to have lost the ability to surmount individual interests and develop blended priorities. Our leaders must help us recapture this talent if we are to thrive. And their ability to do so is something that voters should make a prerequisite for election. Charles Stewart Goodwin Cotuit, Mass. Write: Insight, Correspondence Editor, 3600 New York Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002. Fax: (202) 529-2484. Please include an address and a daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for space. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM