Supporting right party?

Now is the time to ask: Am I supporting the right political party? Parties have ultimate goals.

Look at the end results Republicans would like to see. This party believes in minimum government (collecting taxes, declaring wars, allowing the free market to operate everything else).

The Democratic Party is fine with having the market make material things. Most of these things are not necessities; people can refuse to buy them if they lack money. Yes, it may be a hardship, but people can survive.

Where the two parties differ is on what people need. People need public education dealing with facts, not propaganda, plus libraries to further education, people need jobs, people need roads and parks to travel, a public post office, and, yes, people need healthcare that is not for profit. Retirement should not bring financial worries. Social Security and Medicare should be moral obligations government provides its citizens.

Corporations exist to make even more money, never mind the casualties of individual citizens. A corporation is not – contrary to misguided pronouncements - a person; it has no soul. It uses religion to further its goals, but there is no god to whom it is accountable except the god of power and wealth.

Nina Elo

Mead