As a class, the workers of this state don’t often get the opportunity to speak to their leaders. They have been too busy keeping the power on and bills paid. They have been working in factories to produce goods the public cannot afford. They have been dissatisfied for some time now, but unable to tell their representatives in government in person because there was no time.

The representatives’ hostility toward the public has not gone unnoticed. Attacks on the taxpayers, in the form of taxes and a poor business climate, have pushed people to the brink.

Most people were taught that it is rude to complain, but state officials leave people little choice.

When we go to the store at the first of the month, there are hordes of others – their carts piled just a little bit higher than our own – who did not earn their living by their own wits, but by ours.

We know that when representatives talk of new programs, it is our meager paychecks they intend to tap.

I hope others will join me in telling our representatives in Augusta that if they continue to raise taxes, we will, in turn, take away their comfortable seat.

The people are here, waiting and watching, somewhere between first and third shift.

Douglas McIntire, Auburn