President needs to listen to the people
To the editor:
Here are some things I would like to share with President Obama:
Dear President Obama,
Recently I spent some time on line reviewing your concept of the ideal budget you recently submitted to Congress. Unfortunately I did not see much of what the real world considers as ideal. What I did see is just more of the same – More wealth redistribution, more national debt, $28 billion in additional military spending, and more cuts to Medicare.
Guess what?
You just lost a few more million senior citizen Democrats at the voting booths. In 2014 you proposed using the “core inflation” rate, (Inflation minus all energy andfood), to determine a lower annual cost of living allowance to all Social Security checks. This method sucks. Where do you think the majority of inflation takes place? Precisely -food and energy price increases. What this approach resulted in was reduced real income overall for every senior citizen, both Democrats and Republicans alike. I have no doubt you will do this again.
What you really need to cut is the spending of the Congressional-Military-Industrial-Complex. It is way past the time to dismantle our overseas military empire. We should close down all of our overseas military bases -all 1,000-plus of them. For a fact, they are bankrupting the U.S.A. For another fact, we do not have a God- given assignment to be the world’s police force. This bit of propaganda is nothing more than what has been a very successful effort to propagate a particular attitude and subsequent course of action for the sole purpose of misleading U.S. citizens and improperly manageing the treasury. This is the one area in need of serious attention and wealth redistribution. The attitude of “manifest destiny” is nothing more than pure fiction.
As I pointed out to you in a previous letter, as of Dec. 31, 2008 (When G.W. Bush left office), the national debt was $10.7 trillion. As of Dec. 2, 2014 the national debt passed $18 trillion, an increase of $7.3 trillion under your leadership. This is 40.6 percent of the entire national debt! How do you explain this lack of fiscal responsibility? Where is hope & change?
As for your preference to redistribute the wealth of this country, most rational working citizens consider it as pure bovine body waste. If you discourage the idea of accumulating wealth, we will merely accelerate our present decline to oblivion. I for one, have never been employed by an impoverished employer. Nor has anyone else. There has always been and will always be people of wealth. That is simply the nature of the beast. It requires considerable capital to create each and every business (and job), both large and small alike.
I visualize wealth redistribution as socialism. Nothing more than public collective ownership or control of the basic means of production, distribution, and exchange, with and avowed aim of operating for use rather than profit and of assuring to each and every member of society an equitable share of goods, services, and welfare benefits. This is NOT DEMOCRACY, in any sense of the word. Other attempts of socialism have ultimately failed. It will also fail here.
In the event you may visualize me as one of the wealthy, allow me to dispel that thought. I was born in Jan., 1934, 81 years ago, in the midst of the depression, in a small company owned coal mining village in southwest Pennsylvania. I was a member of a family of 13 children. I definitely have the ability to speak with authority on the subject of impoverishment and privation. Like everyone else living in the coal fields of Pennsylvania we “owed our souls to the company store.” Unlike you and many other Americans, we did not have welfare, food stamps, and all other government hand outs in existence today.
We all worked long and hard for every crust of bread and every other social advancement, without wealth redistribution. Success and well being as a result of personal hard work and effort leaves one with a sense of personal gratification and solace. Perhaps all Americans should give that approach a try and jump off the wealth redistribution wagon… AKA government welfare.
How did we ever get to the point where the government considers it perfectly normal to support the entire illegitimate population of the U.S.A.? Either financially or morally? What is wrong with this picture? What is wrong with the majority of our elected officials… not only do they condone this behavior, but by using tax dollars to support it, they are promoting it. This area is in need of total wealth redistribution reversal, and soon.
R.E. Workman
Cape Coral