Fairness is not necessarily socialism

Well here we go again, another cutesy story of how President Obama should be removed to protect America from becoming a socialist government where all of our property and our rights are taken by the government. Mr. Dam’s story of the picture hanging in his waiting room fails to make that giant leap of demonstrating how the current presidential administration is such. Considering the fact that Mr. Dam has a waiting room, I would assume that he would not qualify as being one of the 99 percent who rely on the government to intervene on their behalf to keep their rights and interest in balance with the greed of others.

It truly is amazing how some persons are able to make this leap without providing one concrete piece of evidence that this is in fact true. Simply state it as being so and others shall believe it as being fact. That really smacks of prejudice. You don’t like someone for whatever reason, race, religion, political beliefs, then just start the smear campaign.

Why bother beginning to provide concrete evidence or fact to demonstrate a shred of truth to the statement. Just throw things out there to muddy the water, like they want the rich to pay for everything. How on earth can anyone jump to that conclusion? Look at Mitt Romney and the fact that even though he has had months to provide his income tax statements, he still had to put out an amendment to them after he released them. If that did not bother you, then maybe that he paid less than 15 percent on taxes did.

I for one like the fact that the current administration is attempting to even this rate for all Americans. According to the United States Constitution, we are all equal, are we not?

Mike Kelley

Gurnee