My Experience

I often read the letters to the editor in our daily dribble. It amuses me. What I find fascinating is that people want to use their personal life experiences to make a case for or against an issue, like theirs is the defining proof.

Remember the old stories about walking to school? "When I was a boy I had to walk 40 miles to school in the snow and uphill both ways." And this would be an argument for what? Getting a ski lift or snowmobiles for all schools?

In our society, individual wants or dislikes have taken rule over the masses. We seem to be driven by what is good for ‘me’ is good for everyone.

It’s the same principle used to sell weight loss products. There is always one or two people that really did lose weight on any particular program or another, and therefore it will work for anybody. Hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars later, hundreds and thousands of people figure out all they lost was money.

What, pray tell, happened to a society that didn’t bend to the wants and whims of a handful of people and often not that many. I can tell you my personal experience in working with the electricity industry that consumers pay additional for service because of one person. There is an organization in Texas that constantly lobbies the regulators to provide services that only add to the cost. And, this organization consists of one person.

While individuals have rights, they are not limited and they should not override millions of others.

That’s my soap box for the day.

I do think that because I really like steak and lobster that the government should provide me with said same. What do you think?

PMO
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