It's all relative

It's all relative

To the editor:

It's often said that "the rich aren't like you and me." The recent media obsession with Charlie Sheen's meltdown, in which he did $7,000 of damage to a room in the New York Plaza Hotel, pretty much proves the point and highlights the fact that they choose to report on matters that don't matter to the average person. 

I don't know what the room cost per night, but it's a good bet that it is many times more than the room rates at the economy motels I stay in where one would probably have to destroy rooms in half the facility to do $7,000 worth of damage.

What prompted the outburst by Charlie who is paid more per episode of "Two and a Half Men" that most Americans earn in a lifetime? Reportedly, he thought the porn star, who he agreed to pay $12,000 to spend the night with him, stole his $140,000 watch. Putting that in perspective, I would have to find a porn star willing to spend the night with me on a blanket in the woods for 85 cents and scuff up some dirt in reaction to thinking she stole my $10 Timex.

Charlie Sheen lives in a world where the problems facing average people, millions of whom are unemployed as a result of misdeeds of the super-rich who couldn't care less about the problems of common folks, don't exist. 

Why is it then that we should allow them to anonymously pour hundreds of millions of dollars into election campaigns in order to elect politicians who will do their bidding and thus make them richer?

Sincerely,

Charles Leach

Lynchburg

To the editor:

It's often said that "the rich aren't like you and me." The recent media obsession with Charlie Sheen's meltdown, in which he did $7,000 of damage to a room in the New York Plaza Hotel, pretty much proves the point and highlights the fact that they choose to report on matters that don't matter to the average person. 

I don't know what the room cost per night, but it's a good bet that it is many times more than the room rates at the economy motels I stay in where one would probably have to destroy rooms in half the facility to do $7,000 worth of damage.

What prompted the outburst by Charlie who is paid more per episode of "Two and a Half Men" that most Americans earn in a lifetime? Reportedly, he thought the porn star, who he agreed to pay $12,000 to spend the night with him, stole his $140,000 watch. Putting that in perspective, I would have to find a porn star willing to spend the night with me on a blanket in the woods for 85 cents and scuff up some dirt in reaction to thinking she stole my $10 Timex.

Charlie Sheen lives in a world where the problems facing average people, millions of whom are unemployed as a result of misdeeds of the super-rich who couldn't care less about the problems of common folks, don't exist. 

Why is it then that we should allow them to anonymously pour hundreds of millions of dollars into election campaigns in order to elect politicians who will do their bidding and thus make them richer?

Sincerely,

Charles Leach

Lynchburg