Letter to the editor: Government solutions are not the answer

The role of government should be to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense with the least amount of government coercion and the most amount of personal liberty as possible. The concept of providing jobs, food, clothing, housing, education and health care is best provided by a free market alongside charitable organizations with Judeo-Christian values of faith, and love for one’s fellow man to serve the indigent.

The ideals of communism, socialism and Marxism tout the need for government control with a maximum of government coercion and minimal liberty while negating faith in God and religious values. Most politicians who advocate government solutions to social problems extort government wealth, power and influence for their own personal aggrandizement through corruption, nepotism and deceit by leading people to believe that government programs are free.

The people of the USA have proven to be the most charitable on the planet. Private enterprise and capitalism have proven to create the greatest wealth and standard of living in history. No system of government created by human beings can be perfect, but the one designed by the founders of the USA have proven to be the best. If you doubt this, ask anyone who immigrated from any totalitarian regime.

Dr. Joel I. Last

Greensburg