Opinion: In today’s pages: Stimulus, wiretaps, immigration, swimming pools
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In Monday’s pages, the Editorial Board casts an unhappy glance toward Democrats and their efforts to load up the economic stimulus package with bits and pieces of a longstanding political agenda:
Because any legislative effort to boost employment and end the recession will take months, if not years, to deliver its full benefits, it’s important that the psychic benefits are felt immediately. If people and businesses believe that the effort will improve job security and increase the demand for goods and services, they’ll be more likely to spend more and take more risks. But if they see the stimulus package as just another boondoggle for special interests, they’ll continue the miserliness that is exacerbating the downturn.
The board also points out that there is no vindication to be had for Bush Administration backers in a court ruling holding that the government does not need warrants to monitor electronic communications between Americans and suspected terrorists abroad.
On the Op-Ed page, the media director of the Federation for Immigration Reform’s Los Angeles Office argues that the economy, education, healthcare, national security and the environment are top concerns of Latino voters -- ahead of immigration and amnesty. Television writer and producer April Smith expresses sorrow and a bit of anger at the closing and burial of the Palisades-Malibu YMCA Temescal Canyon swimming pool under orders of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. And columnist Gregory Rodriguez updates the rat race with a reassessment of the ‘leisure time’ of the well-off.
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