To The Editor:
Contrary to popular belief among Progressives, Democrats, and Marxists the people do not exist to pay for re-election schemes, transfers of wealth from those who have earned it to those who have not, social experiments, social justice, or any other hairbrained scheme elite politicos can conger up.
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