Dear Editor:
After reading Senator Eric Tarr's hilarious and nonsensical commentary, I wanted to write and point out his obvious need for guidance from someone.
Perhaps he should go back and take some classes on how to make a point, rather than just saying the word "socialist" repeatedly to distract from the lack of one. Certainly no one thinks him capable of the self-reflection necessary to reconsider the endless tossing around the word "socialist" while defending the destruction of a land-grant university that both fits his definition of "socialism" and was also the product of the Republican Party.
Of course that was a different time when the senator's party still opposed slavery and had ideas on which to base policy rather than just scapegoating LGBT Americans, those who dare desire a voice in the workplace and others who aren't sending him regular bribes to fund his campaigns.
Funny that those bribes do not seem to be halting the ongoing outflow of the best and brightest West Virginia has to offer.
Meanwhile, Senator Tarr proudly exacerbates the situation by gutting one of West Virginia's finest (and its only R1) institutions to make no point other than that he can destroy one of the few (the only?) West Virginia municipality that avoided the Great Recession.
He and his constituents must be proud.
Finally, I would like to point out that Senator Tarr seems to take no issue with the "unbridled" spending by the equally socialist football team at WVU. A team who's existence has no known point ... oh wait, because he places all value of university programs on whether they "provide degrees that lead to jobs" I'm sure the senator is keeping track of the graduation rate of team members and how many go on to a professional football career.
The latter is a little easier: since 1891, they've produced about 200 professional players. Surely that justifies the $41 million in spending on construction related to the team in the last few years.
Interesting how close that number is to the current deficit, yet somehow it slipped by Senator Tarr's eagle eyes.
Tim Tomon
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
