Naive to accept all who seek refuge

Re: “Refugees need shelter, jobs and a chance,” Jan. 12 editorial

The Post editorial again asks us to welcome thousands of migrants from Venezuela and other countries, and I ask how many of the 28 million Venezuelans (not to mention millions from other countries) does The Post expect us to welcome before we say enough is enough?

The editorial says that “asylum is their only option,” yet, as the editorial points out, they have traveled across seven countries to get to America. Why wouldn’t another option have been to stay in one of those other countries? Or, why wouldn’t another of their options have been to stay in their home country and fight (politically or physically) to change their government?

The inference that we should become host families welcoming the migrants with open arms, if there is space in our homes, because “they are not drug addicts or beggars,” let alone “scary or dangerous,” sounds noble but is naive.

Let me ask how many on The Post editorial board, or liberal politicians, such as Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Gov. Jared Polis, have opened up their homes? How many liberals, such as Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Ellen DeGeneres, the women on The View, or any of the numerous sports and entertainment personalities, have opened their homes to the migrants? Surely many of these multi-millionaire or billionaire liberals have a few extra bedrooms in their mansions to house these migrants?

Jim Malec, Roxborough Park

Speaking of losing trust in an institution

Re: “Investigation fails to find leaker of abortion opinion,” Jan. 20 news story

The Post reported that Justice Clarence Thomas, speaking about the Roe leak, said, “When you lose that trust, especially in the institution I’m in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder. It’s like kind of an infidelity that you can explain it, but can’t undo it.”

A lot of Americans felt the same way about the Supreme Court after hearing Ginny Thomas was involved in Trump election lies.

Stephen Gould, Aurora

The real reason Google ads dominate

Re: “U.S., Colorado sue Google over digital ad dominance,” Jan. 25 news story

As a small business owner and Google ad customer, I am very opposed to the state and federal government’s anti-trust suit and characterization of Google’s business model as a “hurtful burden to advertisers.”

What Google’s product offers is an available and measurable “sure thing” — a source for buying direct, effective online ads — priced “per user click,” with huge reach, featuring the advertiser’s ability to specify the radius and times for “publication” to user phones and other devices. That reach is perfectly mated to the cell phone and computer-using public’s almost universal preference for search via the Google platform — a factor that the federal and state governments and their courts cannot dictate.

If these government folks are successful in their restraints on the “supply side” of Google’s advertising, then we business owners and ad managers will all have to go back to the drawing board. We will have to spread experimental advertising dollars around to alternative and much less effective sources, not knowing — or even being able to confirm — the effectiveness of each or any alternative platform, be it digital or otherwise.

Peter Ehrlich, Denver

Mannings tainted by sports betting

As former Hoosiers, my family was ecstatic to have Peyton Manning as a member of the Colts. We celebrated a Super Bowl win led by him. Then he moved to Colorado just before we did. Again, we cheered him on to another Super Bowl title.

We enjoyed Eli, as well, and the entire Manning family as they showed family values not often seen in professional sports.

Now all three brothers and their dad, Archie, have fallen through the cracks of respect as they peddle themselves in the gambling enterprise.

How much money do these elitist phenoms need? Gambling hurts the most deprived of society. The Manning brothers have given to charitable causes, and that is admirable. But come on, guys, please stop promoting gambling.

Linda Johnson, Evergreen

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