Letters to the Editor
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re: They feel they are the wizard to hold the one ring ...
Everything I know I learned from The Lord of the Rings.. Or was it Star Trek? In my perfect world, leaders would have to be literally drafted, no one who is really suitable and wise enough to be president would possibly want the job, they would have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to the oval office.
That sounds great, but why have leaders at all? Why not trust the population to live on their own?
I kind of like the idea of a tax return with a checklist of where you want your money spent.
You think the environment is the most important issue? You can earmark your entire tax payment to environmental causes.
World hunger? Your entire tax payment can go to alleviating world hunger..
And so on and so on..
I wonder how many, in such a world, would vote for their entire payment to go to making war?
-- Aycharaych
That also sounds great. But why not let each individual decide where his own money is to be spent? I would give a lot more to help the homeless and downtrodden here in my city. We need to build the world one community at a time and that would be central Florida for me. I was educated here years before Disney made it a tourist destination, and with 'progress' has come the usual tragic human problems.
Perhaps if America left the world alone to exercise a little freedom in their lands and concentrated on its own people we would see a much better world.
Unfortunately, many here and most Americans can not stomach freedom. If a guy smokes a little weed, so what? If things need doing, people can do them without the force, coercion, and brutality of the government forcing a one size fits all society.
Wait, this is a dream --- how about 'live and let live' as a motto for the country? Or, "as you hurt no one, do as you will".