This is something that’s been rolling around in the back of my mind for a couple of weeks but didn’t come together until I read your report of the robbery at Target and the comments of readers.
“What’s good for General Motors is good for America.” Misquoted and misunderstood, what Charles E. Wilson, then CEO of GM and later Secretary of Defense, meant was that when America is strong, business is strong; and when business is strong, America is strong.
Compare this with Vladimir Lenin’s dictum that there can be no class struggle if there is a strong middle class. He followed this with, “The way to crush the [middle class] is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
These are important thoughts. Businesses, especially small businesses, as well as the middle class’s participation in the stock market through mutual funds, IRSs, 401(k)s, etc. created conditions that made class warfare in America unlikely, perhaps impossible.
Today, however, the middle class has been thrown under the wheels of a juggernaut whose passengers are National Debt, Inflation, Regulation, Taxes, and Fees. The juggernaut is driven by Wealth-Envy and Socialism. Its passage is cheered by generations of moochers who have been taught that they are entitled to food, shelter, clothing (designer clothing, at that), and entertainment, and who have no concept of economics — or reality.
Is it possible that the burdens of national debt, inflation, regulation, taxes and fees, as well as the polemics of the White House and the apathy of the Congress will be successful in destroying the middle class, thereby creating the conditions necessary for revolution?
We must take back our government.
Paul Lentz
Peachtree City, Ga.
