It is established that we are government by the people for the people.
Our government cares for those who cannot care for themselves. Our government protects us from enemies foreign and domestic. Our government is doing its duty.
What this means: Our economy is and has been functioning properly. Supply is meeting demand. Being that only a nominal 80 percent of those who can work are working at forty hours per week, demand is supplied and not oversupplied. Our government is caring for the rest with the like of unemployment insurance and food stamps. There are those who call it socialist and socialism as though it is a handout. In our system of government those words are non-entities and misnomers. They are words used by those who wish to insult, belittle and distort. The work could be shared equally employing everyone with something like a thirty two hour work week and it might happen when everyone thaws out of their crystallization.
It is not the duty of our form of government to find or create jobs. As what we have is private enterprise, no one can apply the term communistic. Those with the best ideas and products succeed. All of the economists and even the great theorists have been complete failures. They tout their nitty nutshell magic wand concoctions when it is still the same: Supply and demand.
They won’t tell the truth as their jobs would evaporate and even some universities might tumble. Our problems cannot totally be blamed on imports as the U.S. also exports.
Anyone who travels by Interstate sees that infrastructure work is in progress. I-95 is being expanded from two to three lanes in each direction. A tremendous amount of work is in progress in the Wash. D.C. area. The roadways are worthy of the 70 m.p.h. speed limit.
Locally there is the Jericho Turnpike project from the city to Glen Cove Road and the large Northern State Parkway overpass project at Route 110.
It is the hands and minds of we who are working who are producing our needs. Much of the value of that work goes into the stock market. Capital gains must be taxed appropriately to support our programs. The same goes for corporation profits. Those who actually do the work produce the wealth..
An example of the need for improvements and regulation are the number of dead lakes in New York State brought about by acid rain created by the pollutants from mid-west power plants. New York is being progressive about clean solar energy and I noticed that Illinois has large areas of electric wind generators. It is happening.
Charles Samek
Mineola
