Providence Journal
May 2, 2012 Wednesday
Dear Editor,
Oh, heavens. High dudgeon. Mitt Romney earned more than $20
million last year. Therefore, he is disqualified from being what president, a
citizen?
Consider this: Last year Alex Rodriguez, of the New York Yankees, earned $32 million for playing in
baseball games for seven months of the year. C.C. Sabathia and Mark Texeria, of
the Yankees, and seven other Major League players,
earned as much and more than Romney for playing a mere game for a season. Even
John Lackey, of the Red Sox, got over $15.9 million in 2011 and what in the name
of Babe Ruth did he do?
Romney used his talents in finance to build his income and invest
it so as to ensure a return. It takes intelligence to do that. Along the way he
helped businesses and the general economy. And the record indicates that he gave
about one-seventh of that gross income to charities. I d hire a private
investigator, if I could afford one, to discover what the baseball players do
with their money.
So, the modern system of baseball has produced such stellar
ethical citizen/athletes as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. And these are the
types of individuals who induce game watchers to cause individual good tickets
to reach $200, and cause a family of four to pay over $300 to watch a single
baseball game. Great. Somehow they fill the ballparks. And the middle-class
baseball-hatted are somehow all too susceptible to charges that Romney s income
is somehow unfair.
None of the money numbers matter much in terms of the overall
economy, but what one is concerned with matters a lot. Long live the boobocracy.
And God Bless America, as they used to say.
Gregory M. Butler
Pawtucket
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