Con Game

What a marvelously effective con game is being played on the American people! First, we are goaded by appeals to our prejudice and selfishness into supporting cuts in “entitlements” that the “undeserving” poor, sick and elderly are getting at the expense of us “hard-working taxpayers.”

Then our jobs are downsized, out-sourced to cheaper offshore labor and automated out of existence, and more and more of those very same “hard-working taxpayers” find themselves being shaken off the ladder of economic “opportunity” to fall into the ranks of the “undeserving” who they have so vehemently denigrated and deemed unworthy of “entitle- ments.”

Ebenezer Scrooge would have been so proud!

RONALD G. ROWE

Moorpark