GOVERNMENT: Work beats entitlements

I consider myself a common American citizen of modest means never without a job finding a way to meet my obligations. I believe the basis of American economics is a competitive enterprise, not by opportunity which affords a few to make fabulous or unearned fortunes, but because of the encouragement and freedom of choice or action it gives citizens to shape their own lives and plan their own destinies.

I have become tired of the disconnected ideological screeching of soap box pied pipers for "production for use," of hearing calls for a second new deal to "spread the wealth" as a compensatory fiscal policy against all who work hard toward individual goals. The New Deal era of entitlement and fractured radical thinking of collectivist democracy declares that Capitalism could only lead to Fascism and that only government can ensure liberty or equality. These are the progressive's reality and message to us the common citizen as the media opines their nihilistic gospel of hate for the American way of life.

To subvert the public to relinquish freedom that government may obligate more is irrational appeasement having become a mantra for the defeated and feeble of an indulged and shallow creed.

RON SPENCER

Post Falls