LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Published in the Record Courier 10/17/2010

Recently in a rural area of Tennessee, a house caught fire. The fire department was called, the firemen came, and they watched the house burn down. It seems the homeowner didn’t pay his seventy five dollar fee to the fire department so they let his house burn and his pets die. This is the type of world the Tea Party wants you to accept. Privatize everything. Care only about yourself. If you can’t afford food, health insurance, or utilities… tough. You’re on your own. It would seem that to the Tea Party and Republicans in general, business is their church, money their only sacrament, and privatization their gospel. Don’t be fooled by their hymns of shall we cut all our taxes or I’m not giving a dime to save a wretch like you. Does anyone really believe that once everything is privatized America will be better off? Remember Enron? Do you think Social Security and Medicare are hands off to these people? Just because you shout it louder doesn’t make you right. Beware false prophets speaking the language of greed.