Bobby Hurt Wrote Back!!!

And I reciprocated .......

I was quite fond of Virgil's "Goode News."  Virgil had some peculiar views.  He was proud of them.  They marked him as a maverick, not a marionette.  Your newsletters have consistently pointed to the latter.  I think I've expressed myself on that point repeatedly.  I won't belabor.

A couple weeks ago, I wrote on the subject of your evident glee in thwarting the private property rights of St. James College, and your gratuitous parroting of unfounded and pejorative characterization by the looney fringe of the motivations and actions of our President.  Also, you were proud of legislation that guts humane and wholesome laws, rather than fully fund their enforcement, and encourage Lawrenceville's participation in upholding the Rule of Law.

None of the recent response to my email addresses my concerns, but neither does it reinforce my concerns.  You speak as a Congressman -- saying essentially nothing, but in a way that reflects a consideration of broad concerns which indeed have thwarted even the heroic efforts of Bush 43 to bring about a consensus.  We are a similar age.  If my father has his way, I'd have been Hampton-Sidney class of 1976.  Instead, I went to Carnegie Mellon, and remember a fondness of Woody Guthrie, especially his Hobo's Lullaby and Los Gatos.  That was 1948.  It ain't going away.  They ain't going away.  I remember at Carnegie being a fan of Milton Freedman.  Funny how Chile suffered under his advisorship.  Funny how Alan Greenspan regrets the failure of objectivist ideology as a governing principle.  Funny how those same principles failed Bremer's consulship in Iraq.  YOU AND PAUL RYAN ARE IN THRALL TO A PROVEN FAILURE. -- but I digress.  Dr. Freedman spoke of voting with your feet.  What is more violent?  The intrusion of our borders, or what is necessary to deflect that intrusion?  Are people coming here to be given stuff?  I think not.  They want to be safe. They want to pursue aspirations.  They want to be Americans!

I digress again.  I was doing Census work in 1999 in the orchard country around Covesville during harvest season.  When I had car trouble -- who came to my aid?  Not the priest.  Not the Levite.  THE SAMARITAN!  I'm proud to have such neighbors.  I wish the law would adapt to the facts on the ground rather than promote violence to alter those facts.  In fact, I demand it.  Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and Pope Francis all demand it.  And that is a much better governing principle than the "Triumph of the Will" philosophy prevalent in the Bush Administration.  Perhaps Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand aren't so bad after all -- it's the Leni Riefenstahl aberration of the wingnut Right that screwed up Chile's and Iraq's economy, and are working hard (out of Wichita) to undermine our own.

In closing -- I wasn't particularly pleased by your response to my email, but was at least pleased to not be so aggressively and egregiously displeased as is routine from you weekly newsletter.