There are a lot of new notions going around these days, such as that people can take all their troubles and worries to government agencies and they will fix everything.

In fact, they will fix everything … by taking away people’s freedoms.

They have taken over private businesses, such as the automotive industry, the health care business and the banking business.

People should not let the government take away their individual freedoms. This country fought hard for those freedoms; people died for those freedoms. Don’t give them away without a thought.

There is so much propaganda in the media these days. People have to think for themselves. They must not believe everything they read, or hear. They have to use their brains and figure it out.

Big business isn’t the enemy; it is too-big government.

People must use their brains.

Joan Hammes, Lisbon Falls