After reading an article in the Other Voices column about the 10 steps to socialism, when do any of you think this started — in 2008?  That is a laugh. It just means that you aren’t paying attention until someone is in office that you don’t think represents your interests.

It all started a long time before the two presidents who decided that their friends weren’t rich enough. The president isn’t the one who makes the rules. It is the 500 and some people that have more control over the government than he has. 

Anyway, as I remember, there was only one of those programs started — of should I say on the wish list — of the current president.  That would be affordable health care.

The others came before he was in office or maybe before he was even thought of. Oh, by he way, it is time for another round of political promises to be made then broken. Yes, it is election time again and that means it would be time to eliminate some more worthless people from government. Don’t get me wrong, I have never said that they were all bad, just some of them.

After my last letter, one of my friends said it was a good letter but he didn’t think that it did any good. I can’t tell you if it did or didn’t, it all depends on whether people pay attention. I do, however, think that a couple of them have made a difference. 

I also think that not very many people paid too much attention to their history classes in school, otherwise they would know more about the political process. As I always had a big interest in history, I paid attention.

While people are so sure that all of this seems to have started with this current administration, maybe they should look back to where free trade started, then to a few administrations after that, especially the father and son act that was previous to this administration.

I don’t think that anybody would ever suspect that family would do anything wrong. I see that another brother wants the job.

Roger Roesch

Mount Jewett