Entitlements do not need to be cut

Jonah Goldberg's syndicated column does not do justice to the intelligence of our community. The April 11 column arguing that the choices we face on the budget can be compared to the laws of physics is but one example among many.

Those who argue for the rights of Americans to have access to affordable health care do so on the basis of a political conviction that our fate should be subject to the moral decisions of the whole, not the movement of the market.

Goldberg's claim that we must cut entitlements because the market is akin to the laws of physics obfuscates the true political ideology that hides behind it. In short, we don't have to cut entitlements if we decide that it is our moral obligation to provide them. If we do take that path, we will instead have to raise revenue in other ways.

Benjamin Smith

Cedar Rapids