Propped up for success
What is happening to America?
To all homeowners, young starting and old remembering, listen up: Get out and vote next month! Prop. 50, the Howard Jarvis Prop 13, is being targeted again, so be wary and wise and vote no on Prop 50.
It makes me so sad to think of the greed that America is experiencing now. If a person has a little more than the next person, it doesn’t matter how hard that person worked to achieve what they have, someone wants to take it away with higher taxes or another scam. Bah humbug! Older people and people living on Social Security are making it in their own homes because of Prop.13. How can that be a bad thing? America is becoming a country of gimmes for free housing, food, clothing and cash to spend as they want. The older generation in America worked hard for the down payment on their homes, and they blessed the day Prop. 13 became law because it meant they didn’t have to worry about being dispossessed from the home they paid for with hard work and a prayer or two.
Quit the gimmes. Get a job, and work for what you want out of this life we all have to share. Today it may not be the job you think suits your stature in life, but if you try to excel, at even the most menial of jobs, you will succeed. Tomorrow you may be one of the people hiring workers for them to succeed as you have. America is the place that could happen and has happened to many people. Look around you, and see the possibilities. America is an amazing country. It has taken in millions of immigrants over the years and made them “healthy, wealthy and wise.” Wisdom is a great gift. Nurture it, and the rest will come.
Vivian C. Nelson
Long Beach
