Preserve the common good

There is one thing that Mitt Romney has made clear if he is elected: “less government replaced by free enterprise.” Here is a snapshot of what that means for our country.

The first cuts will be to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, food stamps and the post office. Corporations will gobble up all of the commons. This corporate takeover of what used to belong to all Americans and paid for by our tax dollars will start looking very different.

Corporate advertising will be plastered on school buses, classrooms, libraries, police cruisers, firetrucks, parks and manhole covers. Who knows what will become of our public lands? Do you think they will be good stewards of the natural resources that used to belong to all of us?

No longer will we have shared ownership as a country of sacred entities that have forever been owned by “we, the people.” Everything will be managed by the bottom line.

I like free enterprise, but I also love what we own together as a nation. It can only be ours if it is run by the people’s government, our government. This has already begun. Let’s not lose what has always been ours to enjoy.

Bonnie Bogart

Plummer, Idaho