OPINION:
Finding fiscal responsibility among Washington politicians is about as easy as finding a pork sandwich at a kosher deli. Think about it: These are the very same people who tell us they are uniquely qualified to know exactly what we need and want. They take money they don’t have and give it to the people they have identified as needy. These handouts come in the form of free tuition, free public school breakfasts and lunches, free health care, free housing (for illegal aliens), free food coupons and on and on.
We all know where they get the money for these and hundreds of other “free” government programs: hardworking American taxpayers. Yet the remarkable fact is that voters return these men and women to office about 98% of the time, election after election.
Who was it who said that once more than 50% of voters are beholden to government, you’ve lost your democracy? It seems we are there.
H. LEE LAPOLE
Loveland, Ohio
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