A reader writes:
I’m an agnostic libertarian who has been working since I was sixteen years old; I’ll be sixty-one in a couple of weeks, and I’m terrified by the world created by the Bush-Cheney administration. I founded my own company in 1992, and it’s in danger of closing its doors now. My IRA is all but wiped out, and I can’t imagine who will hire a person of my age in these desperate times, despite my experience and work ethic. I hope I’ll muddle through, but I fear a refrigerator box in my near future. I’m another rendition of Joe the Plumber–a small business owner in big need of a break, maybe even a miracle (that’s the agnostic position–one hopes for miracles without the least certainty that Anyone is listening).
It’s hilarious and uplifting to me that, like you, I favor a flat tax, oppose entitlements and corrupt unionism, and I support Obama.
Like you, I am very leery of a single party government, perhaps for different reasons: I believe that humans are frail, and just as Wall Street was seduced by unregulated roads to obscene wealth, Dems may well be seduced by the power in their grasp with the Executive and Legislative branches sewn up, and the Judicial not very far behind.
I thank you for the hope, faith, and vision you shared with the world in your blog today. Please pray, while I hope, for a Democratic landslide. Please pray, while I hope, for a united centrist government that will restore law, dignity, prosperity and personal freedom to our country.
The Dish 