Dead horse is beginning to stink

Editor,

Shifting jobs and services to foreign countries with more lenient benefit requirements is a business adjustment. Unions and government have been demanding too much from American producers. They have complied until they were priced out of the market by labor. Many businesses such as the union ironworkers have worker benefits many times the wages. This forces ironworkers to do piecework or contract labor. None of the ironworkers' companies that I knew are still in business. The ironworkers could not outsource so they dropped out of the union, dropped the benefits and became individual small contractors.

The Democrats scream at anyone promoting right-to-work laws, or limiting worker benefits. They also scream because the fleas have killed the dog. President Bush has to toe the fine line of staving off the rabble-rousers and bringing costs of production into line. We no longer have soup lines to any degree in America. Instead we are piping gold to every ne'er do well and illegal alien.

The American system is designed so that individuals are responsible for their own job, food, shelter, clothing, medical care, education, insurance and retirement. The un-American radical socialists are demanding that business through various taxes shift those responsibilities to the government. The rabble loves it, but they are voting for outsourcing every time they vote a Democrat into office. President Bush is trying to restore American incentive and responsibility while the liberals promote irresponsibility in every area.

True, there are scandals such as Enron, but none compare to the Congress spending the surplus Social Security funds for 50 years, and continuing to spend it, substituting IOUs for cash which equals debt. A trillion dollars in the surplus fund means a trillion dollars of government debt to be paid with interest by further taxing (thanks to President Roosevelt).

America has been and is being sold a very dead horse. It is beginning to stink badly.

Ernest Seablom

Ronan