The letters to the editor

The letters to the editor in the last two weeks brought back a memory. I went to Cuba in 2017 on an educational trip. It was eye-opening - and that’s really an understatement. One of the most vivid images in my mind from that trip were the giant holes in the sidewalks throughout Havana. I have been to several countries, and I’d never seen anything like it. The holes were so large, that if you’d accidentally stepped in one, you probably would have badly broken your leg. I wondered why it was that no one fixed the holes. I mean, if it was in my neighborhood, I’d have been out there trying to find something to fill it in with. Reading the letters about the vandalized sign reminded me that you have two types of people in the world, those who want someone to fix their problems for them, and those who fix problems. These are diametrically opposing and incompatible world views. Leftists seem to want others (ie the state) to fix a problem. They also want other people (rarely themselves) to sacrifice for the benefit of society - but to quote Thatcher, “...there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women...” When you ask others to do what you will not, when you expect others to take risks that have no benefit to the risk taker, you have opened the door to authoritarianism and tyranny. Whoever vandalized the sign behaved badly, but Bandera County Democrats, you should have gone down there and cleaned the sign first, before whining to the Bulletin about it. If everyone behaved as Mr. Daniel (thank you for taking your time to clean that sign), we wouldn’t have half the problems we have.

- Tonya Payne

Pipe Creek