David Leonhardt, economics columnist, thinks giving social security recipients an extra $250. is money badly spent. "A Drop in the Wrong Bucket" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/business/economy/28leonhardt.htmlAnd in LA, over 65s are being asked to return for their H1N1 vaccine after priority persons have had their "shots" and after more vaccine becomes available: "Anxious Crowds Meet Ad Hoc Swine Flu Police" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/health/28flu.html?ref=usBoth seem like reasonable ideas. Let's hear it from the unreasonable!

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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