LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: HOW DO WE GET "WE THE PEOPLE" TO GO FROM A FREE AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY TO A TOTALLY CONTROLLED STATE?

To the Editor:

"We the people" selected and elected a group of people from our midst to look after the affairs of our country and have given them almost unlimited funds to accomplish this.

Now lets suppose the greedy and most power hungry of this group wanted total control, power and wealth. They might talk among themselves and ask, How would we do this?

Socialism! one says.

But how do we get "we the people" to go from a free and independent country to a totally controlled state? We have shown the world for 200 years that freedom is a God given way of life and the only way to live.

Ah! Good question.

Lets look at some options. We know that man is basically lazy by nature, so lets pay him for not working. How will we do this? We'll give big business a tax break to move industry and jobs to a foreign country; then "we the people" won't have jobs.

We will pay them a percentage of their wage and call it UNEMPLOYMENT. It will be paid by big business as part of their tax incentive. If they run out of benefits, we'll extend them. This will keep them dependent on government and at the same time allow big business to make bigger profits. This pumps money into foreign countries making them happy. They stop fighting among themselves and we, as great leaders, get credit for peace keeping.

But how does this move us to socialism? Simple, it eliminates jobs of "we the people" requiring the sympathetic and caring government to take care of "we the people".

What about "we the people" who didn't have jobs to start with? We'll pay them too and call it WELFARE that will make those "we the people" happy.

Aaah ... now we have it moving.

How do we get all of "we the people" under these programs? "We the people" that are working are already complaining about supporting the nonworking "we the people". We'll let the president take the heat and dance around that issue. He can promise to change things, then eight years later when "we the people" don't believe it anymore, we'll run another candidate who will promise, if elected, to reform government (reform is only good if it is for the better). No tax increase, he'll SAY, but, will raise them anyway. Then we'll increase the national debt, create more unemployment. This can and has gone on for years. All the while we're quietly moving on to socialism.

What if the working "we the people" see through our plan and decide to undo what we have accomplished? No problem. We have already banned assault weapons. We'll later add hand guns to the law. Then we'll have the animal rights groups push to outlaw hunting, then we add hunting rifles to the ban. The only people left with weapons are the police force and the military and we control them and they in turn will control "we the people".

But if "we the people" don't have jobs how will they pay for health care? We have in the works right now a plan to socialize medicine. We'll decide if they even need treatment.

Won't that bankrupt the insurance companies?

Yes, but that creates more jobless "we the people" to depend on the government.

We continue this purpose till we have all of "we the people" depending on the government, then we eliminate those in government we don't need. Then the greedy and most dominant says I think ... I want to be KING. ...

Now let us "we the people" ponder a few of the topics of the day. Take the tobacco industry. Why would a government try to kill an industry that produces millions in tax dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs of which this country needs so badly? It defies logic. Is it a ploy to confuse "we the people" to use statistic to further their goal to socialize medicine? Maybe it's to clean up the air we breathe so they can pass a clean air tax. In other words, tax the air we breathe! Don't laugh. We already have a tax (or user fee) for clean water, a place to dump trash, fees to use public parks, and various other taxes the EPA dreams up.

Have you noticed how government finds these experts to testify on what is good or bad for us? Margarine was good yesterday. Today it's bad. Sugar is bad, use artificial sweetener. Now that an industry is built around it they changed their mind. Now artificial sweetener is bad. Kill another industry. More jobs gone. They keep switching industries; kill this one then kill the next one, ship some to Mexico ... till there are no jobs left.

The surgeon general tells "we the people" that crime, teen pregnancy, illiteracy and other problems are a health problem and should be paid by our socialized health care plan. Think about it. When "we the people" have no jobs left to support ourselves there's no longer a free and independent "we the people"!

MITCHELL SHELL

Chaffee