Government

Reader concerned about state of the country

I was pondering our country’s current situation and was having difficulty in figuring out why I have begun to loathe what we are becoming. Then I recalled a family story of great significance to me. My grandfather was born into a large family in the latter half of the 1800s in Poland. Circumstances developed in the family where it became difficult for his parents to feed and shelter the 12 children and they were forced to seek an alternative.

Indenturement was that alternative. It involved sending some of the children to tradesmen to be sheltered and fed whereby they would also learn a trade. Not only was it child labor but it wasn’t always a pleasant situation for the child. The only pluses were learning a trade and it also had term limits. My grandfather worked out his term when he was 18 years old, when he then immigrated to this country and earned ownership of his own bakery and thrived.

When I equate that story with our government and our liberal leftist leanings, it is hard for me not to feel that instead of this government being of, by, and for the people of the nation, we have become, and are, indentured to it. We are now being enslaved by the government for the government and we have no term limit on that indenturement. Good God what happened and what do we do about it? Except vote ourselves back to the constitution that my grandfather so adored and allowed him to prosper.

James D. Ellis

Soap Lake