To the Editor:
We’ve gotten ourselves in a situation in which those who have suffered are beginning to say, “This is enough!” Gradually the abuse, subjugation and wanton disregard for the needs, concerns and jobs of millions of Americans is beginning to take effect across the United States. How long can we allow ourselves to think that the 12 to 17 million unemployed men and women in America are going to tolerate unemployment, deprivation, limited opportunities for their children, loss of their homes and properties while the more fortunate grow richer, independent and care less for what happens to their neighbors and the millions of people struggling simply to stay alive?
This is the way revolutions get started: deprivation, disparity in the distribution of wealth and the political indifference of those who alone are able to ameliorate and solve the problems besetting an increasing number of people who wonder what they are going eat or if they’ll earn enough to pay for the ongoing needs of their families!
If the Republicans really think they are taking the “right road” to solve the current economic crisis by rejecting the Democratic efforts to expand employment, regulate the activities of huge banks and corporations, pass new taxation legislation to establish equity of shared costs of governing, and continue to promote wars overseas, then the revolution is even further along than we thought.
Donald F. Megnin