Writer all wrong about Will column

Wow! Anthony Nelson’s June 16 rant over George Will’s analysis of the Wisconsin recall vote would have one believe that just about everything right with the American economy is the reason Wisconsin voters declined to recall Gov. Scott Walker. Mr. Nelson is wrong about successful people being “the true face of outrageous overbearing privilege in our country,” when it is hard work and entrepreneurship that brings success.

He is wrong in trying to say that “the future of the middle class and, therefore democracy in America” was harmed by the failure of the recall vote, when just the opposite was true. He is wrong to blame globalization for “destroy(ing) collective bargaining for private sector workers,” when globalization is critical to keeping America competitive in this world economy.

He is wrong in saying that curbing the rights of public sector workers will mark “the disappearance of the middle class” and that this will cause “the United States (to become) the world’s largest banana republic,” when just the opposite is true. He is wrong in blaming voters, like those in Wisconsin, for causing our country to harbor the “signs of a Third World country,” when we all know that the socialist policies of the current administration that are the cause of any Third World tendencies that he describes.

Finally, George Will is not a “foul hearted traitor(s) to everything good in America.”

Roland G. Ley

Arlington Heights