The road to socialism

The road to socialism

EDITOR:

I have watched for many years the outcry of our Valley seeking relief for the loss of manufacturing jobs, with no avail. Every four years we go to the polls to elect a president who promises to “create” new and high paying manufacturing jobs for all of us in this area. And each election cycle comes and goes with no new plants or industry cropping up anywhere. So why do we repeat this cycle without question? We don’t know hoot about the presidency and what really is the problem in our country.

The president and the executive branch of government is the enforcement arm of our country. The president cannot legislate, create jobs or enact new laws. Congress is the culprit in most of what is taking place in the economy. The president has a major role in spending proposals, but ultimately the Congress votes yea or nay to make or break these proposals.

So why does each side rail against the guy they don’t like in the White House? Simple. We are an intellectually bankrupt society. We might know the batting average of the third string catcher for the Indians, but we can’t name our representatives to Congress. We clamor for more government control of every facet of our lives, ignoring the fact that is what we have feared most of our adult lives, Communism. We now have a government that decides how much a business executives should be paid, how much they should be rewarded in bonuses, and who should head a major company. This is socialism in its purest form.

And for all you folks who have learned to hate “Wall Street”, guess what? Main Street and Wall Street cannot exist without one another. Class envy, initiated by the Clinton’s has made us hate the Wall Street crowd, but their success is linked to our prosperity on Main Street, and the reverse is true. When you see the likes of Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Maxine Waters doing the “Washington Two-Step” to explain their crooked and deceitful behavior, you know we’re in hot water.

The solution is more simple than we think. Clean out this Congress, both sides. If Congress dropped the corporate tax rate to 10 percent you would see a flood of manufacturing jobs enter this country and our own manufacturers would halt this exodus to other counties for their manufacturing needs. But no, we will keep it at 35 percent and blame the world for killing our industry.

And as a side note, if the voters want Social Security to be fixed, put Congress on the same retirement system we are all subject to.

M. BEN MELNYKOVICH

Lake Milton