Columnist leaves reader 'scratching his head'

To the editor:

I just finished reading “Stop voting against your own interest” by James Matticks. After reading half of the article, I was left scratching my head, wondering what in the world does this have to do with his mission statement.

There were some interesting comments that were made in the first half of the article. First, he stated that he could think of 193 congressional members, the Democrats, who probably did not want to participate in the reading of the Constitution. Why? 

Well, in Mr. Matticks' thinking, it was because of the “underlying message the Republicans and TEA Partiers were sending. I was thinking that maybe the cause was that they didn’t believe in the Constitution or maybe they just can’t understand complex issues and that’s why they passed the Health Care Bill without reading it.

Mr. Matticks goes on to offer his expert skills in reading between the lines. Isn’t it something how only the progressive liberals can read between the Republican lines? That reminds me of a quote by Thomas Jefferson when he was asked about reading between the lines, He said “when I tried to read between the lines I only see blank spaces.”. But who knows what Mr. Matticks sees?

Another interesting  item was his use of the word “foutaise” that was a new one for me I got out my 2009 Readers' Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary and it was not there. I went to Merriam Webster’s, never heard of it, tried spell check, and stilled red lined. I tried to understand the meaning by how he used it in the sentence. “That they (Republicans) are the chosen ones, elected by no other than the grace of God to interpret the Constitution the way our Founding Fathers intended, while the rest of us are forced to swallow their foutaise.  

Now, Mr. Matticks, is foutaise the same thing that we Americans were forced to swallow with Obama Care?

Webster’s did offer some suggestions on the word foutaise, one of which was footloose. Now I believed I had the correct word, if there is one thing a liberal is adapt at, is their footloose use of facts and figures. 

Mr. Matticks goes on to say how he agrees with the Founding Fathers on the 2nd Amendment, after all he owns three handguns, he thought it logical to give the citizens the right to keep and bear arms so the out numbered civilian population could sensibly defend it self from the British and our own government. Out numbered civilian population?  

Mr. Matticks, the very best estimates given for the population in the 1770s was anywhere from 2,400,000 to 4,000,000 people not including the Native Americans. The British and Germans (Hessians) at most were about 60,000 to 65,000. The American forces numbered about 45,000. Add the two together and some 25,000 sympathizers and you still are a long way off for an outnumbered populace.

The rest of the article I thought was a bunch of whining about how the Congress is not representative of the general populace, so what else is new? I don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve had enough foutaise for awhile.

Sincerely,

Russell Morgann   

Highland County

To the editor:

I just finished reading “Stop voting against your own interest” by James Matticks. After reading half of the article, I was left scratching my head, wondering what in the world does this have to do with his mission statement?

There were some interesting comments that were made in the first half of the article. First, he stated that he could think of 193 congressional members, the Democrats, who probably did not want to participate in the reading of the Constitution. Why? 

Well, in Mr. Matticks' thinking, it was because of the “underlying message the Republicans and TEA Partiers were sending. I was thinking that maybe the cause was that they didn’t believe in the Constitution or maybe they just can’t understand complex issues and that’s why they passed the Health Care Bill without reading it.

Mr. Matticks goes on to offer his expert skills in reading between the lines. Isn’t it something how only the progressive liberals can read between the Republican lines? That reminds me of a quote by Thomas Jefferson when he was asked about reading between the lines, He said “when I tried to read between the lines I only see blank spaces." But who knows what Mr. Matticks sees?

Another interesting  item was his use of the word “foutaise” that was a new one for me I got out my 2009 Readers' Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary and it was not there. I went to Merriam Webster’s, never heard of it, tried spell check, and stilled red lined. I tried to understand the meaning by how he used it in the sentence. “That they (Republicans) are the chosen ones, elected by no other than the grace of God to interpret the Constitution the way our Founding Fathers intended, while the rest of us are forced to swallow their foutaise.  

Now, Mr. Matticks, is foutaise the same thing that we Americans were forced to swallow with Obama Care?

Webster’s did offer some suggestions on the word foutaise, one of which was footloose. Now I believed I had the correct word, if there is one thing a liberal is adapt at, is their footloose use of facts and figures. 

Mr. Matticks goes on to say how he agrees with the Founding Fathers on the 2nd Amendment, after all he owns three handguns, he thought it logical to give the citizens the right to keep and bear arms so the out numbered civilian population could sensibly defend it self from the British and our own government. Out numbered civilian population?  

Mr. Matticks, the very best estimates given for the population in the 1770s was anywhere from 2,400,000 to 4,000,000 people not including the Native Americans. The British and Germans (Hessians) at most were about 60,000 to 65,000. The American forces numbered about 45,000. Add the two together and some 25,000 sympathizers and you still are a long way off for an outnumbered populace.

The rest of the article I thought was a bunch of whining about how the Congress is not representative of the general populace, so what else is new? I don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve had enough foutaise for awhile.

Sincerely,

Russell Morgann   

Highland County