LETTER: Local families leave legacy
To the editor:
Currently two U.S.U. Professors are pushing for a countywide library system which is largely viewed as a socialist power grab.
It is not popular with the “autonomous” individually and well managed libraries in the satellite communities around Logan. Twelve mayors are rightfully opposed to it, as are most of us tea party individuals.
It is no surprise then that one proponent of this latest scheme (which is nothing short of another tax and burdensome layer of government) is Professor Craig Peterson, who has grad degrees from Stanford. Observing what happened in California with its economic collapse, we’re opposed.
Professor Peterson’s presentation (doctorate) was in how to apply for and receive federal grants. It is also a fact that USU, since Peterson arrived, has become the single largest applicant and recipient of federal grants with Jay Monson’s blessings.
I do not believe in coincidences.
I do believe that liberal, left-wing, so-called educators have misled and conditioned, indoctrinated even, this entire generation of “socialists” to expect that everything you need, from the cradle to the grave, comes from the government.
It does not. It comes from us taxpayers and we’re cutting you off. Capitalism hasn’t failed, Marxism is killing it. Sixty years of socialism in the U.S, in Northern Utah (or maybe 160 if you count the socialist workers party of S.L.C.UofU, circa 1850) has stifled, restricted, regulated and taxed small business and individuals of free market enterprises almost to death, thanks to Marxist Obama’s economics.
Enter a local business involvement:
Around the turn of the 19th century a famous self-made businessman, Scottish immigrant and steel magnate, Andrew Carnegie made enormous contributions to the USA with libraries. He didn’t owe anyone, he didn’t have to give anything to anyone and he started with nothing. Logan and Smithfield had Carnegie libraries.
There is no way of knowing how many Americans became educated, liberated and successful as a result of the Carnegie endowments.
Another great and pretty humble man from right here in Cache Valley, Junior Miller, also made a new library possible with a huge contribution.
Junior, his father E.A, his brother, the late Lynn Miller, also have earned every penny the hard way, good, honest, noble, dedicated and persevering work in free enterprise within an extremely necessary element to society, food production to sustain life.
Not only have the Millers put meat on the table for hundreds of millions, their operation has provided full-time and part-time employment for countless college students, locals and immigrants from throughout the globe, not to mention a job for some just out of jail, whom Millers would hire though others might not.
I’d take issue with anyone’s disparaging comments contrary to appreciating the family beef-packing marvel that has done so much for so many, and for so many decades.
Anyone envious, jealous, spiteful, or socialistic who would take away credit or praise of this extraordinary company and its testament to free enterprise can take Karl Marx “Communist Manifesto,”leave the country (and don’t come back).
Today’s “progressives” (communists, some right here in Cache County) need to be educated. Perhaps they can start with “Atlas Shrugged” (Ayn Rand), it’s in the Hyrum, Utah Library. Anyone sour about the library should subsist on beans and rice or be deported. I prefer the latter idea for those who would seize unearned wealth.
Don Dunbar
alumnus