To the editor:
As a citizen and voter of Hancock County, a 63-years-young female on Social Security Disability, living in government-subsidized housing on Medicare/Medicaid, I wonder how taking more from the middle/low-income families in lieu of the higher-income families is always the answer to our nation’s debt? Why is Social Security even on the table? It belongs to the people who have worked and paid into it, but yet it was borrowed from in the past and never was paid back!
The wealthy are able to put their money in banking institutions outside the USA, therefore dodging taxes payable to the USA. They continue to get wealthy off the backs of the little man working just to take care of the basic needs of their families. Tell me, where is the justice in this?
Meanwhile, our government passes bills allowing non-citizens such benefits as free schooling, food stamps, and other such benefits that my child and other U.S. citizens have to pay for! Again, tell me how this is fair to middle/low-income families such as mine? Would someone please explain to me how our government thinks the middle/low-income families can possibly carry the debts on our backs while people are losing their jobs due to businesses closing or being taken outside the USA for slave labor in other countries, whom l might add, borrow from the USA but don’t, however, pay the loans back?
I never believed, nor trusted, in the Electoral College. It needs to be abolished and make the elections based on individual citizens’ votes! I never voted for the current president, nor would l in the future. He’s a businessman who only thinks of helping the people of his financial class. I hear people make remarks about how our current president became a wealthy businessman, but in their statements l never hear how the president and those like him started out with their foot in the door by inherited money, which is placed in banks in other countries! Somehow, our elected officials need to flip the switch and start making the wealthy people of this nation start pulling their weight. Somehow, the wealthy need to be significantly penalized for placing money in out-of-country banks.
Next, outer space military spending is completely out of control! No one is going to tell me a significant portion of financial spending in the area of our military can’t be reigned in! Also, stop military intervention in countries fighting religious wars! I frown on U.S. citizens in the military losing their lives over religious wars that have been taking place since the beginning of time.
To me its like playing "Monopoly." The ones with the most money always try to break the little man. It’s time for all the little men/women speak up! And l don’t mean for this to be done by protesting; it only leads to violence with nothing being accomplished, except that you get news coverage.
If spending cuts are made, l agree that specifics should be provided. My daughter, 39, strongly believes as l and others do, that they keep us in the dark because it’s easier to keep us uneducated. My daughter says all the time, "Politicians want us to stay uneducated!" It’s time we showed them we’re not going to just sit back, keep our mouths shut, and let them walk all over us. We need to put politicians in office who come from middle/low-income levels who understand what it means to suffer the big-money bosses.
So, what it all boils down to for me is: Does my vote really count? What politicians have my interests at heart? It’s time for a drastic change, and so far l haven’t heard any politicians speaking up for me.
Betty Krueger
Greenfield
