Effect of the ‘60s on the Have-Nots

Magnet’s article sounds like the last gasp of the outmoded efforts by Reagan-Bush-Quayle conservatives to blame all of America’s social problems on the 1960s counterculture.

As for self-indulgent values, how about including among our sterling models of morality and “the belief that gratification should be deferred to achieve future goals” the heroes of conservatism in the Reagan-Bush era: the executives who put their eight-figure salaries above the future interests of their corporations and the country, the wheeler-dealers like Ivan Boesky, Charles Keating, Michael Milken, Bunker Hunt, Leona Helmsley, BCCI and the S & Ls.

DONALD LAZERE

San Luis Obispo