Traditional media protected socialsim; now there are more voices

To the editor,

I can appreciate Ed Chase’s frustration in trying to explain to the local liberals why those of us that still have a job are tired of paying for all the “lay-abouts”. Perhaps I can give him some advice to help keep his head from exploding.

First and foremost, we’ll never get an answer from the likes of Ed Allard, Kate Miller or Obama as to exactly how the 45-percent of the adult population that pays NO TAXES are going to “pay their fair share” because it’s evident they aren’t going to. We’ll also never get their ilk to recognize that if we taxed the so called “rich” 100-percent, it still wouldn’t cover the perpetual debt for all the liberal programs they demand. They will never understand that it’s the rich who create jobs and they’ll never figure out that corporations don’t actually pay taxes; it’s the people that buy their products who pay the taxes.

They are also clueless that the military is the best choice for many of the young adults who wish to learn a real skill, unlike the public education system that fails so many of them. The reason the public school system is such an expensive failure is because the liberal’s real motive isn’t about educating the “children” nor is it about helping the “single mothers” that Ms. Merwin pines on about. Their only mission is to assure their jobs, power and gold encrusted benefits.

Mr. Chase needs to recognize the reason Mr. Sandy and the rest of his “enlightened” friends are unhappy is because the media that has protected their socialism for so many years has now expanded to include those who are reporting the “rest of the story”, as Paul Harvey used to say. It drives them crazy that we can all now witness the collapse of the liberal state of socialism. Not just here in America but the UK and Europe too. Even after spending more than 10 trillion dollars toward the “war on poverty”, it has become completely obvious to even the dimmest of bulbs that it’s an unsustainable failure. To make matters worse they are hoping to send that retread tax and spend liberal, Carol Shea Porter, back to Washington to keep digging the hole she helped put us in.

While these poor liberals lose their grip on the media they once controlled, they are exposing themselves as the true selfish hateful people they really are. Most notably are the professors’ recent columns where he expresses his bigoted views of those who disagree with him and then he does what liberals do best; blame everyone else but themselves. Let’s not forget Mr. Allard’s casual use of calling Republicans “terrorist” for simply having an alternative point of view. Who acted more like terrorist Mr. Allard, the Republican’s who were simply working through the government process or the union thugs who descended upon our state capitals with their demands, threats and unruly mob behavior? It is they that have created the nanny state that has produced the needy class to the point where we can no longer tell who really needs services and who doesn’t. I have had the displeasure of sitting in budget meetings watching the elected liberals lapping up the lies of administrators who always drag out a “needy” person or make up some law that doesn’t exist in order to promote the wasteful spending on unnecessary programs and positions. Even the nonprofit groups boldly explained how they give money away to people who don’t quite qualify for it. In other words, if they don’t have people that need services, they went out of their way to create them.

I’m not surprised that 98-percent of Mr. Allard’s small world shares his version of the “American dream” being achieved on the backs of hard working Americans. Unfortunately for him, the jig is up! Every single person reading this letter knows people that have been unemployed for quite some time and have zero interest in finding a job because they are enjoying the “free” money. Each of us also knows about those “single” mothers that needs so much help with “free” day care that they have the father of the child (or some other guy) living with them secretly just to qualify. And those “starving” seniors” who must have “in home care”? Don’t even think of getting in their way when they’re headed for those slot machines or bingo halls throughout the country.

Even as I’m writing this I’m puzzled by an article I read authored by some liberal Democrats who are demanding the return of taxpayer money that was mismanaged by the Local Government Center — the same LGC that each year provides each community with an over bloated estimate on employee health insurance. This is a perennial favorite for the school administrators because they can tell everyone that if the actual costs are lower, they will return the money to the tax payer. A convenient fable they know in advance will never happen because there’s always a worthy cause to spend on the “children”. This would of course be an expense for a teacher salary or stipend for a departing union member that is pumping up their retirement. Now they have the nerve of actually accusing the LGC of creating lofty jobs and benefits for themselves with our tax dollars. If only the “enlightened community” was enlightened enough to see the irony of their accusation. I guess it only counts when they cry foul!

Terry Stewart

Gilford