To the Editor:
This is in response to Don Weathington’s Sept. 9, 2011 column “Conversation from Birdland” entitled “Resources 101.”
Our nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to justice for all. Our nation thus founded jealously guarded and protected private property rights. The right to private property is the foundation of every right we have, including the right to be free and to have free use of one’s private property.
Mr. Weathington’s notions and surmisings have the effect to severely limit if not outright destroy private property rights in our country. A person’s possessions – included in this is their money – they should have free use of it with no threat that it be taken from them in a free society. Otherwise there is no incentive to excel, to start businesses, hire people, actively participate in commerce and overall improve the lot of everyone.
This is why communism and all totalitarian regimes ultimately fail in that all the people are reduced to a situation where they share a common misery. This is where redistribution of wealth leads.
As it has been said, “You soon run out of other people’s money.” The government cannot spend money more wisely than those who should have free use of their private property.
I would encourage the readers to take a look at the Sept. 14, 2011 letter to the editor on pages 8 – 9 of the Bulletin by Stuart R. Goldstein. This is a well-written rebuttal to Mr. Weathington’s “Resources 101” column.
– Howard Brittain, Columbus.