To the editor:
If you feel like complaining about our government services, think again.
Without a board of health, you’d find bugs in your lunch.
Without planning and zoning, homeless people can build a shack in front of a million-dollar home.
Without traffic cops, driving becomes a game of chicken.
(And that’s one thing I don’t understand: If a road has no white line down the middle of the road, they say we need a white line. Why? You should know to stay on the right going and coming.)
Without building codes, bugs come up through the drains if they are not covered after your shower.
Without welfare, people live in boxes and fabricated houses with dirt floors.
Without a sanitation department, garbage is dumped in the streets.
Without minimum-wage laws, people work seven days a week for $40 a month.
Without freedom, you can’t take a picture of a shopping mall.
Be proud of who you are, as an American.
Stand tall, but be incredibly grateful, because you were blessed enough to be born in the greatest country in the world: the USA.
D. Hague and D. Cline, Brown County
