More on Colonel Lonnie Barham

   Is not a retired Army colonel who rants against big government a curiosity ?  Who also thinks that the former editorial page editor of the Providence Journal, Robert Whitcomb, was at least a pink shade of Bolshevik ? Well I just read a commentary piece he wrote for the Warwick Beacon published 9 / 22 /  11.  For a moment he shows his democratic stripes . Big Government will be checked " only when the majority of Americans make their voices heard loud and clear at the voting booth. ". OK the military has as much right to vote their conscience as the rest of us plebians. But what if we vote our class interests as the absolute majority of the nation ?  Then the sagacious Colonel sees the ominous prospect of a " tyranny of the majority " -  more takers than producers  who " vote themselves more and more entitlements ".   Karl Marx, you see got it all  wrong . The working class " producers " are not nearly as productive as our ruling class.  I guess it is wealth that creates wealth -and with very little Biblical " sweat of thy brow ".

             But why won't these magical JOB CREATORS create enough jobs for everybody ? The trick is they will if and only if it can make them richer.

     Colonel, I salute you . And to hell with real American democracy !