State doing its best to ruin businesses

Published 4:08 pm Tuesday, March 25, 2003

I have lived in Oregon for the better part of 60 years and have been a productive citizen for most of my life. I have watched Oregon grow to a great state. I believe I have always done my part to make it so. But I am convinced Oregon is in a state of total self-destruction.

I have sat in our little town and watched the total waste and demise of our state and wondered why the productive people in Oregon have allowed the government to destroy our economy and completely demoralize the few productive people who are left in Oregon.

Our local and state government has allowed a complete state of rape and pillage to most all small businesses that are left. If this government control attitude is not stopped, our total economy will completely self-destruct. I have sat in my business and had these people try to explain to me how important their do-nothing government jobs are, to protect the public from some terrible catastrophe that only the do-nothing arrogant government can prevent.

I have found that to build anything in Oregon they really aren’t interested in the health of Oregon only their own finances. Their arrogance, threats and coercion make Al Capone’s protection racket look like pikers. If this garbage cannot be cleaned up and the waste controlled, the exodus of productive people who have the ability and ambition to build will leave and the state will have a hollow economy.

A few years ago we were informed that Oregon no longer needed a land-based economy. We no longer needed our farmers, loggers, miners, etc. I was informed by one of these creatures who spews this kind of garbage that we have a new clean high-tech economy that is going to replace our land-based economy. But they forgot a few things. We have to learn to compete with the rest of the world and learn how to curtail the hemorrhage of waste they have created and which their socialistic and communistic attitudes can never learn to do.

DOUG VINCENT

Ukiah