We hear daily about how the government is reducing the federal deficit by cutting services in critical areas that are most needed. We are told that as good citizens we must be responsible for our own debt by “tightening our belts” and saving everywhere we can, even when it hurts. We are told to accept the fact that these government cutbacks may (“will”) put our safety, our children’s education, and our health and financial security last on our priority lists. Really?!
But, we have yet to hear of any government official(s) willing to make those same adjustments in their lives. When will our government realize that they can only get so much from the people before there is no more to get? Is it their intent to incite a nationwide revolution, as happens in other countries when the masses have no place to live, no food to eat, and no way to survive without engaging in criminal activity?
We want to see all our government officials, elected or appointed, reducing their own salaries, “freebies,” job and travel perks, health-care coverage, children’s education options, fire and police protection in the area(s) where they live, downsizing their vehicles and houses, and doing everything else they are insisting that we, The People, do!
We, The People, are not stupid. We are fed up with the double standard being enforced upon us, while our government leaders deem themselves “exempt” from those very same enslaving and crippling laws.
The time for the “change” we were promised has come and gone — with no good results. Any “change” that would actually benefit our country now is a change in government and its policies and practices! Let’s start at the top, for a “change”! If we are all in this together, then let’s see the current administration and politicians jump right into the fire with us!
Ken and Judy Reed
Darrington
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