Editor:

During discussions for the Prosperity mine, a company rep said that a great thing about democracy is that “everybody” has the ability to protest and voice their opinions.

Well, hello, yes you can do that after you finish the work of the day.

It would be wonderful if more of us had a publicity department to lobby politicians and put out our opinions over the media.

But in reality, few of us find time to think through the distractions and conclude what should happen.

Why is it that it takes two people to support a family, when it only took one 50 years ago?

Increased taxation of workers has always been a measure of abusive rule, but the economy developed to serve the people with goods and services, not the reverse.

Currently, they are replacing cashiers with customers. But now where corporations have failed, we have saved them with public money. Is it free enterprise or not?

It is my ancient opinion that power has tipped into the hands of the few, along with the money, in all but one respect.

That respect is where a majority can win, whether by voting or protesting.

This is the last power left with the people. We can vote with our hands, our feet, and our voices.

Use our feet where we show or where we work, our hands where we vote or we write, and our voices where they will be heard.

And when we vote, I believe we must recognize that the nearest we will get to fair proportional representation within the current legal framework is by demanding a coalition in preference to a minority government.

Bernie Littlejohn

Chimney Valley