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Scandals are a symptom

Amid all these ongoing scandals we see the Obama administration involved with (Benghazi, Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups, Associated Press communications tapped) we can extrapolate one of two things: Either they are 100 percent naive and don’t know what they are doing; or they are 100 percent corrupt and are completely in control of all of what is happening. Either way, they have no business running this country.

The problem we have is that too many American voters think it’s OK to prosper from other people’s hard work. They want the easy way out, so they vote for Democrats. As long as politicians can use the IRS to forcibly confiscate our earnings and use them to pay others to vote for them, we will continue down this path of irresponsibility and corruption. America needs desperately to rein in government control of all our lives before it’s too late and we lose what freedoms we have left.

The problem is those who think as I do are targeted because those who want big government are afraid of what we believe, and need to quash it. They are not above using intimidation and fear to achieve this. When is enough, enough? Who should be held accountable?

Rob Leach

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