Fence Post

Government must sell off buildings

We were a capitalist nation until the Marxists immigrated to the United States from Europe and infected the population of the weak minded, the lazy and the stupid, with the idea that some would work and some would invest and the rest would profit.

Now have a coalition of the weak minded, the lazy and the stupid, who have voted these leaders into power over and over, and it doesn’t seem to be just one party. It started when Teddy Roosevelt took lands the states were letting homesteaders settle and made it the property of the federal government. He convinced the population they needed national parks, and they had to turn all the unsettled land over to him so the government could make the parks.

They started right away to build buildings, and once they own one it stays in GSA ownership forever, whether they use it or not. Today 45,000 buildings are empty and the taxpayers pay an army of “workers” to maintain them, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars every year.

Once government gets its hands on anything, they just accumulate more and more. Unless we make them divest all they own and let it be purchased by investors, they will have title to everything and we will have to rent the property we worked for, from the government.

The only property any government should be allowed to own is the Capitol, the White House and the Pentagon. All other property should have to be sold and rented back on an as-needed basis, and the need should be reassessed every year.

Local city halls, fire stations, courthouses, roads and all “government owned” property should be sold and rented as needed, just as the federal government should have to do. Eminent domain should be used infrequently and never just to profit the friends of some politician.

Wilton Jere Tidwell

Huntley

Thimbleful of Lohan more than enough

Thank you for restoring my faith in the print media by placing the article about Lindsay Lohan’s accident on the back page of the June 9 newspaper. However, I find it hard to believe that there wasn’t something more newsworthy to take up the 2½-by-3-inch space given to Lohan.

Keep working at it. You are on the right track.

Richard Sitch

Geneva

Don’t exempt judges from pension reform

I find it appalling that our state legislature and governor are exempting judges from any pension reform action. Their reasoning is that now they can be impartial in their review of any new challenged pension legislation that will come before them.

That is totally absurd and un-American. Since when did we in America exempt a specific group of people from the law? We elected judges to be impartial. Their job demands them to be impartial without any special favors. Our politicians now want to grant judges special favors by exempting them from any pension reform. Are they trying to sway judges to vote any constitutional challenges to pension reform their way?

How does this reflect Gov. Quinn’s and Speaker Madigan’s shared responsibility in pension reform?

Richard Niemaszyk

Elgin