LETERS: JUMPING ON SOCIALISM'S BANDWAGON

To the editor:

It seems that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon of socialism. They want socialized medicine, welfare, subsidies and morality, and they even want government to make everyday decisions in their lives -- well, maybe everyone else's life. Very few of these people believe that it would be right to go out and rob a bank at gunpoint, but its OK for a government to go out an rob those who work for a living.

This is exactly what they are doing when they want more services. Someone is being robbed to pay for their wants. The money has to come from someplace.

They want government-defined morality funded by robbing others. This sounds like a contradiction to me.

The government is always eager to grow stronger in order to meet these wants. Power to those in government is a high. Give them enough highs, and they will become as dependent as alcoholics or drug users, demanding more and more. They are selling people's lives into slavery to bankroll the government's lavish habits.

There are also those who believe that the government can be trusted with our lives. Tell that to the survivors of Waco. If an individual burned and gassed mothers and children, we would want him to suffer the worst abuses we could imagine. Why is it different for government? Is it because we are slaves to the institution of government? In this, I believe, our forefathers would be appalled. Is this the new morality, the one we wish to replace individual morality and responsibility with?

The record of socialism is clear. The Soviets killed millions of their citizens. China killed millions of her state-owned citizens. And everyone has read of socialist Germany before and during World War II. States have no individuality. Only individuals do.

JAMES NALL

Marble Hill