Thursday, November 23, 2017

RE: NYTimes article

J Jencks

 Portland, OR 7 hours ago
I fail to find the point of this article. Every year people suffer losses, family deaths, hurricanes, etc.
How is this year different than any other?
Why, the day before Thanksgiving, do the others feel compelled to write such a downer of an article? Are they concerned we might be enjoying ourselves too much? We should be suffering guilt trips for the losses of others?

I will miss my dear father, as I've missed him for the last 3 Thanksgivings. I will miss him on Christmas as well. It is natural, with every holiday, to devote a thought to those we've lost in recent years. "Auld Lang Syne" puts that very impulse into the words of a holiday song. Isn't that enough?

Enough with the guilt trips.

Aleister

 Florida 7 hours ago
I am thankful for a deregulatory-minded Washington that lets businesses grow, 3 percent GDP growth in 3Q 2017, an SP500 index that YTD has grown 18 percent, and a current 4.1 percent unemployment rate. The middle class -- not just the upper class -- is finally seeing real income growth opportunities.

None of this was an accident. Thank you President Trump.

Guillermo Piedras

 Salt Lake City, UT 12 hours ago
We live in the most blessed country on Earth and have virtually everything we need at our fingertips and all these writers can conceptualize about Thanksgiving is to condense their angst over people who are killed in criminal violence. I thank God that there were two Texans who shot and chased down the murderer at a rural church and I thank God that we have the right to protect ourselves from criminal violence by exercising our Second Amendment rights even as we protect ourselves from totalitarianism by exercising our First Amendment rights.

RE:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/us/sutherland-springs-vegas-shooting-hurricanes.html