To the Editor:
With the political season heating up, I read more articles and letters in the local papers spreading misinformation on everything from single-payer health insurance to what’s really going on in Iraq.
Progressive, open-minded candidates are labeled “tax-and-spend liberals” when they try to change the status quo for the betterment of everyone living here in the U.S. and to preserve the American dream as I used to know it.
Let’s think for a minute about what kind of nation our liberal policies created?
Joe Republican gets up in the morning and fills his coffee pot with water to make his coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.
With his first cup of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe because some “commie” liberal fought to ensure their safety, and that they work as advertised. All but $20 of his medications are paid by his employer’s medical plan. Because liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too.
Joe begins his workday. He has a good job with good pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays, and vacations, because some “crazy” union members fought and died for these working standards.
It’s noon time and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some “godless” liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers such as those who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.
There’s more, but I think you get the picture.
I support candidates for change that are both progressive and supportive of working-class values and not in the pockets of corporate America and their lobbyists.
JIM CARR
Millport
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