OPINION:
The Washington Times is an excellent paper and your Commentary section is usually very good. But every once in a while there is a clunker — and Peter Morici’s recent column, “Republicans should not cheer New York’s turn to socialist Mamdani” (Web, Aug. 19) was one of them.
The first item I noticed was his “frustrated elites” statement, pertaining to “professionals in the creative arts, media, non-profits and academia.” Are these self-proclaimed “frustrated elites” or was the label given to them by Mr. Morici? Either way, I don’t agree with it.
Just because people have college degrees does not make them elite. And if they are having difficulty getting a well-paying job in New York, they have two options: Move to a cheaper place or try to get in a job in another field so they can pay the ridiculous prices in New York.
I found that entire paragraph in Mr. Morici’s piece insulting to the large numbers of people who do their jobs everyday but aren’t called elites. The so-called elites are one of the many problems in our society — college graduates who get a degree in philosophy, art history or ancient Greek and expect to have a $200,000-a-year job to be waiting for them. Their skill set simply does not warrant a high-paying position, college degree or not.
I have an MBA but I don’t consider myself an elite, and neither should they.
The rest of Mr. Morici’s column was just a mishmash of “elite” academia bullet points that probably came right out of one of the assigned-reading books in the class he’s teaching.
DAVE HACHEY
Glen Burnie, Maryland
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