To the Editor,
Re: Student needs economics lesson, Letters, March 12.
How rich. To see Randy O’Donnell – who cannot discern between artistry able to hold up a stunningly accurate reflection of reality and economic “non-fiction” based upon a magic pie theory – lecturing Taylor Stacey under the theme of ‘economics 101’.
Even to read O’Donnell conclude his lecture with the deliverance of an economic tenet he denied the existence of only weeks ago.
Lewis Carroll: “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.”
Randy O’Donnell: “Namely that every dollar going into his poor, underpaid professor’s pocket first comes out of someone else’s.”
Dare we suspect that O’Donnell’s comprehension of economics is limited to whatever it is he finds momentarily convenient in the effort to ensure that he doesn’t have to share his slice of his ever-expanding, magic pie?
Pity that he (and his political clique) cannot distinguish between the fictions of money (especially those of the fiat variety that “our” economy is built upon) from realities that must follow the strict injunctions of arithmetic and mathematics; an ability to distinguish between the infinite of human imagination and the limits of planet Earth.
Perhaps then he might be qualified to lecture students in the rudiments of introductory economics.
David S. Dunaway
South Wellington
