Cutting government too risky

The theory of lower taxes, less regulation and smaller government is not proving to be the cheapest form of government for the average American.

Our Congress rolled back the regulations on the financial industry to the 1920s, and we almost had another depression. Oil companies have been permitted to drill without being mandated to use best construction practices. We now have an environmental disaster that is going to cost the public in cleanup and lost jobs.

We nearly lost a city because money was deleted from the federal budget to improve the sea levees. We had a bridge collapse because highway maintenance funds were cut. We have a higher frequency of food contamination because of the lack of food inspections.

Past corporate tax cuts were used to build manufacturing plants overseas. There is more fraud affecting all of us because of the lack of law enforcement, and it has cost us in our jobs, health care and pension funds.

The bottom line is that the general public needs more government, not less government, to control the greed and corruption occurring in our business community today. I can assure you that I will not be drinking tea with the tea party this coming election.

G. Thomas Clark

Deer Park