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Why should we have any more concern for New Yorkers [Sept. 8] than they have for us? Chances are the grain growing around Kankakee puts food on New Yorkers' tables, and the pet food or the Sears appliances they buy were made here. Let New Yorkers be concerned about our weather at harvest time or the labor situations at our factories, and I'll gladly be concerned about their city's economic condition.
Frank Absher
Program Director, WBYG-FM
Kankakee, Ill.
If Professor Andrew Hacker thinks New York City has budget problems, he should come out to Kankakee and other cities in the Midwest. By tightening its belt Kankakee will have a budget within its means for the next year.
Since Kankakee is solvent, there will be at least some Kankakeeans who will be worry-free enough about their local taxes to consider buying New York City's bonds. Besides, Kankakee has more interest in New York City's welfare than some might think. Some of the greatest blue-chip corporations in the country have established plants and divisions here. And after all, New York City is the marketplace for their stocks.
Kankakee can't bail New Yorkers out of their financial dilemma, but it doesn't hurt us to wish them all well.
Tom J. Ryan Jr., Mayor
Kankakee, Ill.
To Bus or Not
I have ceased to regard busing [Sept. 15] in this country as a racial issue.
A middle-class American parent may have spent 15 or more years to jockey himself into a position to provide a particular home and home territory for himself and for his children. Why try, if the Government can arbitrarily cancel it out?
Joyce N. Lewis
Albuquerque
C'mon, Louisville!
Isn't it about time that we of the present generation drop the inbred ignorance of our parents and take this opportunity to better the world?
Frank J. Nolin
Fairfax, Va.