Editor:
The editorial “We got Trumped” (The Creemore Echo, Nov. 4, pg. 4) states in part, “This election is a mirror that shows the true face of Americans…”
There is an interesting contrast between Trump, on the one hand, and the Clinton Democrats and Canadian Liberals and NDP on the other. Democrats, Liberals and NDP all promise new “social benefits” which “government” will provide, ignoring the fact that it is taxpayers, not the governing party who are doing the providing.
Trump on the other hand promises to “put America back to work again”. It appears the majority of Americans voted for the opportunity to provide for themselves, rather than the opportunity for “government” to provide more to them.
Sure, we all voice many criticisms of Trump’s attitudes and outlandish pronouncements. But the notion that government should facilitate people providing for themselves is consistent with the individual efforts to build the country, which made America great in the first place.
Bill Phelps,
Creemore.