LETTERS: Plett
To the Editor:
Politicians and bureaucrats are very good at leading the people to believe they are getting something for nothing. Is it right for politicians to deceive the people into thinking that their generosity is from them and not at the expense of the people?
In a recent letter to the editor, Dick Bond and Jill Docking praised area legislators for restoring and/or increasing funds for various social programs. What did it cost these legislators to be generous? Where is the politicians' generosity — charity, if you will — except at the expense of someone who is working to provide for himself? Whose resources do they use in their generousness? Is it their own, or is it from the very people they seek to deceive and think they are helping?
What happens to a society when the people have been robbed of their will and power to provide for themselves in order for the politicians to show forth their generosity? What is the end result? When there are no more resources, how will the government provide the security, and where then will it have the generosity to give to the people their needs?
Is it not right for a person in society to have the freedom to work to provide for his own security and well-being, and to enjoy the rewards of that labor which he has done? Is not true generosity a personal thing, given out of one's own labor and income in excess of his needs?
Is it right for legislators to be praised for spending the people's hard earned money for their own political benefit? Should not our politicians and leaders rather teach us the virtues of providing for oneself and being responsible for one's own deeds, and in that way build a strong and enduring society? Is it not true that, as the result of the politicians and their generosity, we, as private citizens, are becoming more and more impoverished, more and more dependent?
Jerry Plett
Lincolnville
