Del Haven

Mar 12, 2025 | capemaycountyherald.com | Bruce Allen |Del Haven

A poster on the kitchen wall of a friend read, “If you’re so darned smart, why ain’t you rich,” the clear implication being that intelligent people get rich and also suggesting that if you are rich, you are intelligent. As an ex-teacher at an expensive private school for the rich, I can assure you that’s not true, but it continues be a part of the American mind-set.

Oct 30, 2024 | capemaycountyherald.com | Bruce Allen |Del Haven

To the Editor:I am doing e-mail with a couple of friends in Mexico and a friend in Canada. Like people in many other countries, they follow trends in America. They, like many people in our country, seem completely bewildered by the fact that Trump is either in the lead or anywhere near it in the upcoming election.

Apr 10, 2024 | capemaycountyherald.com | Kathy Birmingham |Del Haven

To the Editor:I cannot express how comforting this column in the 3/27/24 edition was to me. I grew up in an Irish American household where family gathered around the kitchen table, argued politics, sports, neighborhood issues, etc. But always left the table hugging and wishing each other well. The animosity and vitriol we experience today is so disheartening.

Jan 24, 2024 | capemaycountyherald.com | Bruce Allen |Del Haven

To the Editor:The U.S. is a world leader in some things, but one that isn’t to be proud of is health care spending. In 2022 our total spending was $4.4 trillion, close to 20% of total Gross Domestic Product. According to the Peterson/KKK study, our per capita spending was $13,000, vastly higher than the next highest, Germany at $7,400. And the result of all that money being spent?

Nov 29, 2023 | capemaycountyherald.com | Bruce Allen |Del Haven |Vehicle South

To the Editor:Various spouters have said or suggested that the economy was very good under Trump. Trump, never excessively modest, recently repeated that in his NY trial recently by saying “as the president of the United States, I did a great job.”There are lots of “jobs” a president does, one being the economy, and there Trump did a so-so job. Decent but certainly not great and nothing to boast about. There is actually no debating this: The facts are in.