Argument Essay 4: The following is a letter that recently appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper-Better Oak City

The following is a letter that recently appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper.

"The primary function of the Committee for a Better Oak City is to advise the city government on how to make the best use of the city's limited budget. However, at some of our recent meetings we failed to make important decisions because of the foolish objections raised by committee members who are not even residents of Oak City. People who work in Oak City but who live elsewhere cannot fully understand the business and politics of the city. After all, only Oak City residents pay city taxes, and therefore only residents understand how that money could best be used to improve the city. We recommend, then, that the Committee for a Better Oak City vote to restrict its membership to city residents only. We predict that, without the interference of non-residents, the committee will be able to make Oak City a better place in which to live and work."

Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.

The letter which has appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper is not recommendable on the following arguments.

First of all the author has mentioned that the committee for a Better Oak city fail to make important decisions due to objections of those members who are outside the Oak city. However there is no clue mentioned that what was the foolish argument which was suggested by the non-residents. Contrarily the suggestions which were given by the outsiders may not have been understand by the committee. May be the point of view given by the members who are not the residents of Oak City were achievable under specific circumstances, which Oak City lack due to which only few members called them foolish objections. However there is no specific reason given over here that why they are called foolish.

Secondly, the above statement shows rejection of diversity and it depicts a clear biasness. In order to make final decision one needs to take into consideration various suggestions, and point of views. The diversity of ideas can help to have a more reliable decision.

Third, if the non-residents of Oak City work there in there is no reason of proclaiming that they do not understand how to spend the money based on reason that they do not contribute to the income tax. This statement is clearly ambiguous here, since the non- residents although do not live in Oak City but they work there, which means that are contributing a high proportion of their incomes to the city’s economy. Additionally if they work there must be understanding of issue and organizational setup, which the author denies on unstated basis.

Conclusively, the statement given in the news paper is not properly supported, the author needs to provide enough reasoning in order to prove whether only resident members in the committee could give them better results or not. Moreover diversity of ideas is one of the paramount aspects which the author must take into consideration as well to have more realistic results.