Envision Spokane is scary

The March 25 article on two Envision Spokane propositions currently being floated answers the question, “Where did all the communists go after the breakup of the Soviet Union?” All voters should study this radical group’s proposals.

In 2009, their manifesto was rejected 3-to-1. But as Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin preached, “Two steps forward, one step back.” So, in 2011, they pared down their aims (for now) and reworded the others. It lost by only 2 percent. Now they have added a shiny new “Family Wage” catchphrase to appeal to voters who won’t actually read their initiative.

The initiative says a business can’t decide to downsize without “proof” of economic hardship. Prove to whom? The local Soviet? Find that idea in the Constitution. Before an owner can let an employee go he has to “create a process for workers to voice opposition to their terminations.”

Perhaps employers should be forced to stand before their local neighborhood council to beg forgiveness for their crimes against the people.

Go back in The Spokesman-Review’s vaults, or go to Envision’s website. Carefully read all of this group’s very ill-advised ideas. They are not only unconstitutional, they are scary.

Ted Kisebach

Spokane