In an excellent letter by Sherman D. Baker (Record-Bee, Oct. 10), he wondered how we have been reduced to a choice between Obama and McCain. In the last “debate”, Obama conducted himself like a petulant child and McCain responded as though his hands were still tied behind him in a Viet Namese prison.
The worst, in my opinion, was the exchange about “Joe, the plumber”, a man making money in the range of $40,000 – $50,000 a year and managing to support his family. A proper question from McCain to Obama would have been, “Just what in the Constitution, and in all your vast experience, better qualifies you or some bureaucrat to decide how this man should manage his health care?”
In a separate encounter, Obama explained to “Joe, the Plumber” that he just wanted to take some of Joe”s extra money and give it to those with less. Isn”t that how Lenin and Stalin gave Russia 70 years of poverty and misery? I believe it”s called Socialism.
I thought our country was set up on the notion that Joe, the plumber, was better able than the government to make decisions for his family. I”m not the world”s smartest mathematician but I do know this: the more money the government takes from Joe and gives to bureaucrats, the less Joe has to run his family.
Randy Ridgel
Kelseyville
