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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle - Monday, December 9, Page Flight Letters George Bush owes several apologies to world's people Editor: It was nice to see that President Bush finds his present stature so comfortable that he would immediately snap back, as he did, when being questioned about apologizing to Japan for the use of atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. I by no means believe that the United States should apologize for its part in a war of the past. It was a great injustice to a great many people all over the globe, in one way or another. However, I would like to bring up a few people (or things) that Mr. Bush might consider apologizing to (or for) and possibly, do something real to head off any further pain: 1) The proliferation of U.S. military weapons into Third World countries, an extremely bad policy, recently proven by the Indonesian military slaughter of innocent people with U.S. 2) The Kurds, a poor people in dire need of our help just as the far wealthier Kuwaiti people were last year. 3) The American people, as the president has done so little to clean up andor prevent the S&L scandal along M-16- s. with the following bank crisis, while covering up his son's involvements. 4) The American poor, for sending billions of dollars to foreign lands instead of investing it in the first priority here at home in America. 5) The American college student who massive cuts in financial aid, while Mr. Bush wants to be known as the education president. 6) The environmentalists whom he seen has promised to work with and help, now turned aside by more pressing interests of richer groups. These are just a few things that .1 am sure a great many of you readers know far more about than It's time to stop trivial I. blaming over a war that ended decades ago and focus on the present path that is taking us into the future. By no means should we forget our past, we need to learn from it, not fight about it. I think it's time that Mr. stop this polished complacency act, roll up his Bush sleeves and dig into the muck with the rest of us. Andy Peirson international relations Senior Medical profession deserves high wages Economics 101 Editor because most of rather criticize than attain would us It is ourselves. such heights self-servi- expensive because the cost of malpractice suits (based upon the idea that doctors are rich people amplify the spirit, "Hey, you l shouldn't make more money than I do," that permeates throughout the public. ("Putting an end to doctor deification," Dec. 5) If a doctor ever made decisions based on such an unprofessional, 9.75 of expensive. It is What a surprise! Another myopic article by a poorly informed staff writer. Eleni Vatsis has chosen to who should never make mistakes) are passed down to us. The "writer" then goes on to "prove" that doctors must be irresponsible money grubbers because they would rather be surgeons than analysis of a problem as Eleni's, the doctor would probably be sued into indentured servitude. Like everyone else in the world, Eleni Vatsis wants something for specialize in other fields. It is true that surgeons, on average, make more than most other fields; however, the days are long, the nothing. She wants the best medical care in the world and potential for mistakes great and the critics many. To strive for that challenging, important job should not be criticized. Or, is it correct to say, "Petty staff writers for school should not dream of fiapers writing positions for wants it for free. (Or does she want to be paid the same for a four-yedegree as for a degree that takes eight to 12 years?) She is quite right that greedy doctors do exist and that corruption does increase the cost of their services. Surprise?! To which group of individuals can that not be applied? Mechanics? "News people?" Aside from the fact that doctors, for the most part, are good, caring people, her implication that doctors ar larger papers?" As was pointed out, it costs a great deal to go to medical school. Four to eight extra years of school is not free. It matters very little that b much of that is student medical a because training" still must bear much of the costs. Eleni's point about loans is not clear. Does she think that it is a bad investment by the student or the general public (our taxes support the low cost loans)? Does she think that all loans are bad, or that to expect a return on an investment is morally wrong? Ms. Vatsis is not the only person "on-the-jo- should be above such aberrant behavior further deifies those that enter the medical profession. Yes, doctors are people too, motivated by the same emotions and dreams as each of us. Perhaps the reason that we hold doctors in such high esteem is that we hold life in high esteem and we recognize that creating and maintaining life is much more in our society who thinks we should get the best for less. I do not think that such a dream should be demeaned, only that a week or two difficult than its destruction. Yet to hold doctors to a higher standard g and than our own is self-servin- Uewi tte Etas? ciifril rRcttetr cfi studying). I suggest that we should all try to pull ourselves up to the creators' wealth rather than pull them down to us. However, until we stop rewarding the critic (see the increased admissions to law school and the corresponding drop in applications to medical and engineering schools) and return to rewarding the person who wants to do her or his job well while making a difference, we will continue to have cry babies whining, "I want as much as you have without working as long and hard." (See Animal Farm for the success of that ideology.) So goes the quality of our education, products and services. I hope that in the future the Daily Utah Chronicle staff will try to do some research before holding a megaphone to its mouth and making such noxious, misinformed noise in our space. Phillip Drinkaus mechanical engineering nit Mir III" si 3 i. ir i lit ill K 'in ut ! IIIIAHIANII '6 - lull . t t I tt - jrf ( . "ti llllKlltl tHI r i i II i fl(0)Hi.O Sites ttUlfifl it?iK Ifcuifrifet?'1 (Ui coif) financing is no such thing as a free lunch) would help the American public wake up and realize that we cannot get something for nothing. When the voting public realized this, some long-rang- e economic (Yes, politics, economics and medicine do interrelate.) policies may be supported in favor of those that gratify immediately (like the theory mat we should all make $50,000 a year no matter what our employment situation, or that we should all get A's no matter how much time we invested into ne lest! Used Car Loans refinance your current used car loan today? Our low fixed rates are as low as 9.75 APR. Up to 100 (the weeks during which we learn that there is Of lest le APR Why not 1991 I - , it ft till ft (lp . i -- i 6We in autaltUe cold! 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