To the editor,
Let’s see: when teachers’ unions or government employees tried to maintain their pensions or wage agreements they were called parasites and thieves who were stealing from the public.
But when someone suggests that an oil company that made a $43-billion quarterly profit give up its government subsidy, that the tax break for corporate jets be eliminated, or that the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2-percent be allowed to expire, so that everyone shares in making sacrifices to reduce the deficit, the response is: “Socialism! The Communists are coming!”
The obvious greed and hypocrisy are nauseating. As we see this week, 300-million Americans are being held hostage by a cell of Republican terrorists in Washington. Their approach, fed by ignorance and fear, and spread by lies, is morally and fiscally bankrupt.
Ed Allard
Laconia
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