Dear Editor:
Chris Vaz, (WNY Reporter 3/25/2001) doesn’t seem to get it.
He argues President Bush has a mandate because he won a lot of small counties and a lot of prairies and mountains but his “mandate” is suspicious because the hand counting of all the votes, provided by Florida law, was prevented by a partisan Supreme Court (whose names will live in infamy) and because the American people rejected him by over 500,000 votes.
As to “class envy,” free enterprise built this nation, but it does not “rule” — the people rule. The question is just payment for value, namely the benefits of citizenship and life in the greatest nation on earth.
The wealthy receive more benefit and value from life under the American system and can afford to pay more, as certain very wealthy Americans with deep moral vision, who love their country and its people more than their wealth, recently made quite clear.
The non-rich pay their share to support the American system with their “labor” and in times of war, with their lives and those of their children because there are not enough rich to go around.
And don’t be so sure that the American people “envy” the greedy, “don’t share” rich.
John Tomasin
World War II vet