Joe Bageant

No insight as to why she is homeless

Dear Joe,

In your reply to the lady who wrote in about the California housing bubble ("Signs that real estate bubble has popped"),  you wrote: "I suspect losing one's home and its attending spell inducing goods and services and being out on the street will do the trick."

I have a story for you. An acquaintance/friend of mine is so thoroughly brainwashed and "out of it" that she spent all her money, retirement funds plus a sizable inheritance in five years. She has been homeless now for an entire year and do you know what she STILL does? If she has any cash, she will either buy a glass of wine at a bar or buy some piece of shit at a yard sale.

There are far better options than Belize

Joe,

I've been reading your articles and I'm especially interested in more detail about Belize. I'm a 'Nam vet, and one of many thoroughly disgusted by what is happening to this nation under the rule of the unelected Village Idiot's Regime. Many years ago I believed in the U.S.

My parents and I arrived here (1955) from Caracas, Venezuela, to visit a relative and wound up staying. At seventeen (1964) I joined the Marine Corps as a German national and wound up in a rice paddy in 'Nam. After about eighteen months my commanding officer discovered I was not a U.S. citizen, so I was sent stateside for two weeks to become a naturalized citizen. During those two weeks I had one hell of an education about what was going on in this country. I started questioning, and have been questioning ever since.

Send only thin Finnish women to USA

Dear Joe,

You missed a trick there! I'm sure you'll get lots of email on the subject, but after reading the 'USA is too large, broken, and unfixable' letter I had high hopes.

You wrote in your reply:

Meanwhile, let me say that I have known quite a few Finns in America and they are amazingly level headed people. Why don't you send a few thousand more over here to improve our breeding stock?

True, they won't have health care, will be forced to marry very large and vain shopping-crazed women ...

Book is not a collection of online essays

Hello Joe,

I visit your site daily and much appreciate the style and content of you writing, as well as the correspondence you post. I have read everything you  posted on the site to date.  My question is: Have I already read Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War on the installment plan?

Regards,

Jim