Reader takes issue with economic stimulus package

Dear Editor:

The economy is self-perpetuating only if we allow supply and demand to regulate it.

Since we are striving to create a global economy, we are actually destroying free enterprise and the capitalist benefits of this way of life.

Rather than lifting the economy of poor nations, we are pulling the working middle class down to the level of third world countries. That is what has toppled our country.

When government micromanages every industry, when the government rewards failure of big business with my tax dollars, what else can you expect. As long as the government keeps expecting the middle class to keep supporting this quicksand scenario, we’re all sunk.

This country is biting the hands that feed it but punishing those who are successful with higher taxes.

Why do you think the Democrats won’t do away with the “death tax”? What they fail to squeeze out of the working class while we’re living, they take from our successors when we die.

Why do we say the Pledge of Allegiance before most government meetings and large public functions What hypocrisy at the national level! Some want the word “God” taken out of our pledge. We actually need the phrase “to the Republic for which it stands” removed so we can stop lying when we recite the pledge and then vote for Democrats at election time.

I expect four more years of new bailouts and entitlement programs. Then, when everyone is up to their eyeballs in the quicksand, we’ll switch sides again and expect the Republicans to dig us out. I’m afraid we may be at the point of no return and will evolve into a socialist or communist society.

The efforts of my grandfather – planting a pecan in a one-gallon pot when he was 80 years old to create a tree what would feed future generations – will no longer be a thought in our minds.

Saving for a rainy day will no longer exist.

Gone, too, will be the proverbs: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” and “Iif you want some pecans, shake your own tree.” They will all but be forgotten.

If you want change, government can’t do it.

Each one of us will have to change and start living within our means and create something that will self-perpetuate.

Herdis Neil,

Montegut