Letter: Liberals blame it all on GOP
Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2003 | 9:21 a.m.
Can liberals do anything except use scare tactics when trying to advance their cause? For that matter, do they even have a cause or are they simply against what Republicans are for? Almost daily we read their ranting, yet we never see any ideas of their own.
First, the liberals accuse Republicans of "taking away baby's milk" when common-sense restraints on runaway programs are instituted. But who said that my money should pay for someone else's kid in the first place? Having kids is a personal responsibility; but I guess the liberals don't believe in that.
Next, liberals accuse Republicans of throwing little old ladies out of their homes because they want to try to fix Social Security for future generations. It doesn't matter that nobody currently on Social Security would lose a single dime in benefits. Of course these are the same little old ladies who think they should get a larger raise in their wages. Never mind that wages are compensation for services rendered while Social Security, on the other hand, is simply a tax on one generation to pay to another. The money that they paid into the system was long ago spent on their predecessors.
Now Republicans are being blamed for rising heating costs, ignoring of course the turmoil in Venezuela, which has virtually cut off a large source of heating oil. No sense letting facts get in the way of hysteria -- it's simply easier to scare people with blather.
About the only things that Republicans haven't been accused of yet is bringing blood, frogs, vermin, locusts, darkness, and the slaying of first-born sons onto our land. Of course, the last time that happened, we were released from the bondage of tyranny and set free. Hmmm, now there's a thought.
VICTOR MOSS
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