{"id":25501,"date":"2019-06-16T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/letter-to-the-editor-the-u-s-is-not-full-its-full-of-itself\/"},"modified":"2019-06-16T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T22:24:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-the-u-s-is-not-full-its-full-of-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-the-u-s-is-not-full-its-full-of-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: The U.S. is not full. It\u2019s full of itself"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four days before Joe Guzzardi\u2019s column \u201cIs the U.S. full? No, It\u2019s overfull\u201d (published June 8), the Summit Daily News published Tom Purcell\u2019s column \u201cHey, America! We need another baby boom!\u201d Letter writer James Tuthill, you embraced Guzzardi\u2019s words as gospel truth. But did you miss or dismiss Purcell\u2019s clarion call to procreate?<\/p>\n

How blasphemous for Guzzardi to hijack the term \u201csustainability\u201d and twist it into the depraved concept of maintaining \u201ca quality of life \u2026 consistent with the American way.\u201d Such an arrogant sense of entitlement. No, the U.S. is not full; it\u2019s full of itself! Mr. Tuthill, what \u201cnatural resources\u201d are immigrants going to deplete that Americans aren\u2019t already over-consuming? Oil? The U.S. military is the largest consumer of oil in the world. They also have a trillion dollars to squander on the F-35 fighter jet, so don\u2019t worry about financial resources either. Don\u2019t get emotional. Food? Hire more immigrants to harvest. Guzzardi laments land loss. Look at Summit County, where in 2010 we had 80% absentee homeowners. Second and even third homes! Blame immigrants?<\/p>\n

\u201cMore immigration creates more competition for jobs and requires costly social services.\u201d This scapegoating by Guzzardi is dismantled with unassailable evidence in Aviva Chomsky\u2019s book, \u201cThey Take Our Jobs!\u201d and 20 other myths about immigration.<\/p>\n

The U.S. is the richest country in the world. Yet, 2017 data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees found 49 nations that accepted asylees and refugees more than the U.S. No, our asylum system is not broken, Mr. Tuthill. Please read the book, \u201cTell Me How It Ends\u201d by Valeria Luiselli \u2014 an inside look at the vetting process.<\/p>\n

You prefer facts to emotion? Detained immigrants are fed rotten food and denied adequate medical care while in overcrowded facilities with broken and overflowing toilets. See democracynow.org (June 12), but don\u2019t get emotional.<\/p>\n

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Four days before Joe Guzzardi\u2019s column \u201cIs the U.S. full? No, It\u2019s overfull\u201d (published June 8), the Summit Daily News published Tom Purcell\u2019s column \u201cHey, America! We need another baby boom!\u201d Letter writer James Tuthill, you embraced Guzzardi\u2019s words as gospel truth. But did you miss or dismiss Purcell\u2019s clarion call to procreate? How blasphemous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 02:43:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}