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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters to the Editor, April 5 MailTribune.com Writer Posted Apr. 5, 2016 @ 12:01 am Posted Apr. 5, 2016 @ 12:01 am » Social News p bs:newslist StartDate="20121121" EndDate="p bs:datecalc Months="3"" DateSort="1" UseObjects="1" ObjectClass="81" Taxonomywords="2325,665" ExactTaxonomyMatch="1" Image="1" Count="4" --> Lawsuit is laughable I am absolutely outraged to read the recent articles on Susan Campbell Calzaretta regarding the lawsuit filed against her. Having known the former Medford detective personally and professionally for many years, I cannot imagine a more horrific and unjust irony in this woman's life than to be accused of the very thing she worked so diligently to prevent. I could cite a host of personal experiences where Sue has helped care for her aging parents, my own elderly mother, friends, neighbors and countless others for whom she has so generously given of her time and talent in ways large and small. Knowing Sue, her values, her morals and above all, her personal integrity, it's easy to understand why she excelled at protecting our elders and preventing their exploitation. Those same attributes make the veracity of the charges filed against her almost laughable, were it not for the destruction of a previously untarnished reputation. I am deeply saddened that this respected member of our community and dedicated law enforcement officer who has devoted so much of her career to protecting those who could not protect themselves has had her name besmirched and her long history of respectability questioned. Cindy Quick Wilson Medford Future could be satisfying George Will’s Sunday, March 27 editorial, “Why the future will disappoint,” is correct if there is nothing new that will emerge to improve the quality of our lives as have the technological innovations in sanitation, health and material productivity dating from the 1870s that he so ably describes. But Will is an apologist for the system that produces poverty and economic uncertainty in the face of increasing material plenty while enriching a tiny percentage of people. Certainly no mere technological innovation can fix that. Will is correct in that regard. We need innovation of another kind. What Will fails to say is that innovation in public policy could result in a very satisfying future. The countries of Europe have proven that it is possible to have societies that benefit and provide for everyone. There are other even more effective solutions on the table proven but not widely known that do not need massive government intervention in individual lives as the only alternative. We have more than enough available through economically just public policies that honor the individual while asserting the responsibility of community to solve our social, economic and environmental problems. The future could be quite satisfying indeed. Wendell Fitzgerald Ashland A few exceptions I totally agree with the reader who said we need to keep socialist ideas out of America. But can we make a couple of exceptions? I'd like to nominate libraries, public schools, the Postal Service, highways, freeways, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, parks, state universities, the military, airports, buses, light rail, the FBI, police, fire departments, water treatment plants, HOAs, the VA, the FDIC, the FDA, snow plows, the CDC, Child Protective Services, WIC, the TSA, the Child Tax Credit, the INS, NASA, gas pump inspections, weather forecasts, GPS, 911, public bathrooms, sidewalks, public defenders, unemployment benefits, building codes, farm subsidies, OSHA, adoption agencies, elevator inspections, and the Internet. 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