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Work ethic differs from success

I would like to respond to Erich Marquardt's letter in the March 7 Exponent. I think you have totally missed the point. What does the size of a bank account have to do with morals and policy? When you used the examples you did in your letter — Donald Rumsfeld, Donald Evans, Paul O'Neill and Colin Powell — all you did was point out how successful these people are. Personally, I would rather have someone who has worked hard his whole life to make something of himself than someone who completely wasted his life being lazy. All you did, Erich Marquardt, was show that President Bush searched long and hard to find dedicated, hard working and successful Americans to be his advisers. Your ideas are just like republicans Daschle and Gephart's. This is not a class war; it is about morals and policy! Thinkers like you will do more to tear the country apart than to bring it together. Rush is right!

Mark Farrand

Junior, School of Technology

 

 

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