To the Editor:
It is this country’s belief that if you subsidize something, it will eventually get better. Does anyone believe the stimulus was for the poor?
President Johnson was a great man and anyone over 65 can relate via social security, as of course, can everyone of color via the civil rights act of 1965. God bless him for both of his monumental accomplishments.
Now comes the scrutiny of his actions. No one will dispute his actions were altruistic but when viewing in 2010 what has happened? The civil rights act which encumbered many also opened the door to all people just not of color for some government assistance via welfare. This was a noble gesture but unfortunately allowed many people to chat on it while others unfortunately just stepped aside and did nothing about it. So on and on it went creating the so-called welfare generation.
People thought it was just colored people and never realized everyone was getting in the dole. One alien was overheard right here in Maine walking into the welfare office and in broken English say “I come for free money.” Very true story!
My heart goes out to those on welfare who are ill, but for anyone who by the grace of God has his her health and finds it easier to just get a check every month rather than climb out of that life, it is up to our government to do something as for who knows why they don’t want to leave.
Well to conclude, it is government who is the problem. It started it and allowed it to pester to the state it is in now. There is an old saying you can’t borrow yourself out of debt (unless you’re Donald Trump of course.)
As a depression baby I recall the hardships inflicted on our population and became aware that it took a world war to dig us out of it. Now we have smaller wars but are we actually doing the same thing. The industrial-military-banking complex are the real winners in our futile war on poverty.
Frank D. Slason, Somerville
