Letters to the Editor: "walk it off"

John Manning writes a zinger. He thinks the public sector is on its way to killing off 'all private enterprise.'

["London Free Press, December 3, 2013"]

I can understand his anger if job loss hit him hard or rising expenses (car, gas, groceries, rent, etc.) are crippling him. But if he's doing OK he needs to realize it's not the public sector that is the chief culprit. He needs to go for a walk.

["And if private sector kills off jobs, there
will be fewer families who can pay for goods"]

Walk to the Kelloggs plant on Dundas east, London, home to 550 jobs that will be gone by the end of 2014. Walk to a growing list of other shuttered industries we once had. Walk to single-family farms around his home town to determine why the families have gone elsewhere, perhaps into nearby cities for social assistance from the public sector. And think. Maybe the following culprits will come to mind:

     mechanization in the private sector 

     downsizing in the private sector 

     the search for lower wages in the private sector

     the thirst for higher profits in the private sector

     low corporate taxes, low responsibility levels to workers

["Fresh air and ideas needed"]

Walk it off, John. Maybe the light will come on.

Photos by GH

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