I just wrote a letter to Sam Whiting, who so aptly covered the People's March this past Sunday, January 19.

Dear Sam Whiting,

Thank you for your report on The People's March.  I now have my very own People's March tee-shirt, which I bargained down to $15 since that was all I had in this "rotten system of capitalism."  I just hate platitudes, even when I believe in the cause, and I'm too tired and old to overthrow the American government, so hearing "The people united will never be defeated" really irked me. Couldn't they get their platitudes to rhyme? How about "The people we needed will never be defeated" (even though they were) or "The people united should be--not so divided"?

Anyway, I joined SDA (Senior and Disability Action) for as long as I could stand it.  But it bothered me that the first talk spoke of how the powers that be  were getting filthy rich and asked, "But do we ever get a raise."  This was too soon after the hotel workers' strike, and I just wished they spoken instead of how much more CEOs get than do the workers under them.  Is it 400 times more  in the US' rotten system of capitalism?  In Europe's rotten system of capitalism is it only about 65 times?  I really want to know.

Thank you for illuminating the  living and the dead.

Tina Martin