I would like to compliment Dan Rodricks on yesterday's column ("Angry Americans: What do you want?" Oct. 5). His succinct description of the economic situation was a breath of fresh air in a poisoned atmosphere of so-called conservative rants against taxes, spending and incumbents. I understand that we tried their recipe for success when we had the last economic crisis in this country. It was called "The Depression."

These groups are more effective in their public relations drumbeat than in the consistency of their logic, and the media, by and large, do not present a balanced account. It was the same situation with the Iraq war. It's like déjà vu all over again.

Jeffrey Dier, Lutherville