Tom Ault
Jefferson City
Dear Editor:
Too often we, as a citizenry, forget what a wonderful gift our forefathers gave us when they adopted the form of government we have that allows us all to do as well as we want to or at least do the best we can, even if limited in health or knowledge. We make room for the limited when we can.
Thinking people, who take the time to be appreciative of what they have, are the happiest, the most adjusted, and in most cases are the most productive people in our great country, if not the world.
Bradley Gitz pointed out very well the disadvantages of Socialism and the affects that condition of living has had and is having on people living with it. It is a fact that when you eliminate competition, whether it is in sports, learning or living, you eliminate desire to accomplish. Once that is done, there is no direction to go, but down. If a person is satisfied with living with what they are given without earning it, there is a mental problem they need to deal with. We have more people today than ever before who seem to think someone owes them a living, and it must be equal to the person that works very hard to achieve what he has accumulated through that hard work.
We seem to be moving in the wrong direction due to misguided desires. Even our media, both written and verbal, pushes many government programs that are slowly eroding our individual prosperity. It seems to be forgotten that those things must be paid for by someone! I, for one, do not want to give everything to a government that can supposedly “equally distribute” to those that have not taken from those that work and have, all the while lining their own pockets. Common sense tells me that to give, you must have. The government is no different, it cannot give what it does not have.
Our government was not founded on the theory that everyone should give to it for redistribution, it was founded on the idea that all men were created equal and therefore should have the freedom to work, accumulate, own, and live their life at they desire without government interference.