Letter sent to Detroit News on January 21, 2011 regarding the mandatory stickers on grocery items, and the Governor's plan to repeal it.

Dear Editor:

Just as the Luddites were threatened by the mechanization of knitting mills, Michigan's neo-Luddites are fighting to maintain the anachronistic and expensive jobs of grocery store sticker placers. Apparently, Michigan consumers (along with similar folks in Massachusetts) are too stupid to read the posted price above the items. Perhaps we should prohibit people from pumping their own gasoline - as is the case in New Jersey. Maybe we should dispense with automated traffic lights, and return to the old days of officers standing in the middle of intersections. Think of all the great jobs that would create!

On the other hand, if the individual pricing sticker law was repealed, prices could go down. Profits could go up. More people could be hired. Unemployment would go down! Sounds like a Win, Win, Win, Win situation to me.

Thomas E. Page