Letters To The Editor

Sometimes when I read letters to the editor in The Huntsville Times, I have to wonder if the person writing the letter actually believes what they wrote, are just plain ignorant or like to make it sound like the end is near.

Here's a quote:

'...isn't it... unfortunate that 28,000 children die each day in America from poverty?'

Oh wow. Seriously?

IF that were true (it isn't), that's more than TEN MILLION children dead each year. With a population of a little more than 300 million in this country, the entire United States population would be gone in less than 30 years. Probably quicker.

Does that even sound plausible? TEN MILLION kids die in the U.S. each year?

Please...

Now I never went to medical school and all I know about what a coroner does is from HBO, but in my 30+ years on this Earth, I've never heard a cause of death as 'poverty.'

'Your honor, it is the opinion of this court that little Johnny died from acute poverty.'

Heart attacks, gun shot wounds, car accidents, heart disease... Yes.
Poverty?! In this country?

Please...