LETTERS: Going backward years ago
To the Editor:
It's becoming clearer and clearer that government has no intent to protect personal welfare and private enterprise but to use them for its own ends. You let government get a foot in the door and it won't stop until it owns the whole house!
Seems like our county is going backward. Shouldn't our leaders be discussing how to decrease crime, not how to make money from it? What does this tell us? That we can only expect things to get worse and worse and that we can't depend on our leaders for security!
It appears to be about more and bigger government. The more laws that are legislated, the more lawbreakers are created. Laws are made to be broken. The only law that endures is the law of conscience or personal responsibility.
Shouldn't our leaders protect our God-given right to provide for our own welfare, not take it away? Seems we have been allowing them to do that more and more, and look what we are getting for it. Commissioners tell us if we get this jail — which provides free food, free clothes, free utilities, and free recreation for the inmates — it will create wealth for our county. Of course, we will have to pay for it. And how will that give us more? More jobs will require more wages and benefits paid by us.
We know from experience, if there is any money to be made in the long run, it will be for the benefit of the government bureaucracy, not of the people. Maybe we have learned our lesson. The more they take from us, supposedly for our benefit, the more we lose.
Jerry Plett
Lincolnville
