As many people know, Pepsi Bottling Group, formerly affectionately known as Seltzer & Rydholm, is shutting down the bottling facility in Auburn. From the time that out-of-state outfit took over, the closing was easier to predict than the ice leaving Lake Auburn.

It doesn’t care about this community or its citizens anymore than any big giant that comes from away to take over any business here.

Before it is done, that plant on Merrow Road will be nothing but dust and ashes and mean no more to the company than the great workers who made that place the place to work for good wages and fair treatment.

This state is turning into a welfare state and no one will survive. No one can make a living and support a family working at discount stores, but before jobs are created you have to have people who want to work.

As long as people can make more money not working than working, they aren’t going to. We have created our own monsters by not helping those who would work.

While shopping recently, I had to get down on my hands and knees to get a jar of coffee from the shelf and when I questioned it, I was told, “No one wants to work nights” (to re-stock shelves).

How about, “no work, no money.”

How many people get asked what hours they would like to work?

Wilma Turcotte, Auburn