To the Editor,

Our economy can be described as a train that has an engine of Freedom pulling many boxcars. Those boxcars include Public Schools, Manufacturing, Elections, News Media, Religion, Banking and Government to name a few in no particular order. None of these boxcars can go very far without the engine of Freedom.

But there is a problem with this economic train that threatens everyone who relies on it. The jealous little caboose at the back of the train thinks he would be a better engine. His name is Socialism and he has been steadily applying the brakes to our economic train since the days of FDR. This jealous little caboose has convinced some in the boxcars to join him in abating the engine because it is going too fast and should not be trusted with all that power. Socialism has used the power that the engine provides, to convince the Public Schools, Government, and many in the Banking and Manufacturing boxcars that they would make a better engine if they worked together as a team. So they formed a union with the same goal as any other train but without one ingredient – individual freedom. The union demands complete solidarity. So if you are in the Public School, Government or Manufacturing union boxcars, you will have to subjugate your old fashioned individual rights to the greater good of the union. The union will give you everything you need so long as you don’t need too much. You’ll have to give up some unnecessary ambitions in the name of equality.

And so it has been. Today our engine of Freedom has had so much of its steam redirected to the socialist caboose that it may not be able to make it up the next hill.

DRC