Banish ‘vulture’ funds
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Editor, Even in modern education we are taught that the ideal school class size is about a dozen, and never more than two dozen at the most. Even the teachers whose business is education have discovered this through years of experience and we should be able to take a tip from their common sense. Enormous high schools and mammoth universities have become heartless machines, producing unguided students. There was more individual attention — much more than in the school. You just can’t produce that kind of product with the massive machinery, mass production and rapid, hasty, impersonal assembly-line type of an operation of our present educational systems. It’s impossible. They have come out in identical molds of dead, lifeless, mindless, leaden robots. Ted Rudow III,MA Encina Ave Palo Alto
Editor, In a world of sinking morality, a group of vulture funds have successfully diverted millions of dollars of write-off loans to Third-World countries into their pockets. These funds purchase ThirdWorld debt for pennies on the dollar and sue debtor countries for massive profits. For example, an impoverished Liberia, where 80 percent of the people survive on an average of $1, recently lost more than $20 million of aid money to two vulture funds. This outraged British lawmakers who have recently crafted a bill — the Debt Relief Bill — that would prohibit unscrupulous investors from robbing debtor countries. The U.S. should follow Britain’s example by outlawing such funds. We should heed the words of the president of Liberia — the first woman president in Africa, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — that vulture funds “are so unfair to poor countries; have a conscience, and give this country a break.� Please write to your lawmakers and urge them to support Representative Maxine Waters’ bill to outlaw these funds. Tejinder Uberoi Stuart Court Los Altos
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