President

Roosevelt was a good man, a kind man, a thoughtful man,

who had great faith in the product of our country's

founding fathers: the Constitution and its Bill of

Rights. The latter guarantees the "Civil Liberties

of a Democracy." It guarantees that if the majority

of American citizens wish to provide a means for present,

able working people and their employers to support

retired members of an earlier generation, they may do so.

This is the kind of move benevolent people would expect

of a democracy.

In 1935,

during our country's Great Depression, President

Roosevelt was instrumental in the passage of the

legislation leading to our present Social Security and

Medicare and the end of the Depression.

I suppose

one should expect to learn of a few self-centered

individuals among us, who care little about America's

disadvantaged, disregard our government and state laws,

run red lights, exceed speed limits and, impolitely,

tailgate.

I am

pleased to learn that polls continue to indicate that the

majority of our citizens wish to repair Social Security

and Medicare, where needed, not destroy it?.

Edward

H. Ramey

Fayetteville

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