To the editor:

This is in response to the letter published on Jan. 25 by Michael Spahr in which he again tries to use intimidation tactics to stop someone from replying.

That may have worked in the past, but not now.

First of all he made the claim that most American business profits are based in fair economic standards. Really, Mr. Spahr? There are numerous nationwide multi-billion-dollar companies that cut the hours of their workers in the first month of each year just to protect the profits that they made in the last month of the previous year. Is that a fair economic standard or not?

The same companies hand out lists of government benefits to anyone that asks for a pay raise. This has and is happening in quite a few states. Again is this a fair economic standard?

And Sorry for you, Mr. Spahr, but from the feedback that I get from numerous people both that I know and from people I don’t, they agree with me and not you. The attitude that you and others of your ilk have seems to be dying out.

Now let’s get to his comment of research and development, testing and manufacturing. Let me ask you this what is the real cost versus the actual cost? Let me give you an example. The COVID vaccine was researched, developed, tested and manufactured at a cost. Was that cost passed on to the people that were given the vaccine? Nope it was and still is free to all that have or will receive it. Wow, what a concept some thing that was developed at a cost but was given out free.

Again to his incentive arguments, which, by the way, are pedantic and pathetic. I mentioned two good incentives before but I will list them again — keeping a roof over one’s head and putting food on your table. The fact that Mr. Spahr thinks that keeping up with the Joneses is an incentive shows how warped his inability to think beyond the brainwashing the right-wing media have placed on him.

America is supposed to be one of the richest countries on the planet yet we still have people that are homeless, living paycheck to paycheck, going bankrupt due to medical bills and people dying from hunger. Yet all that Mr, Spahr states and makes the claim that most people are generous to a fault. Really, Mr. Spahr? If that were the case then none of what I mentioned above would be happening in this country.

Now to his second to last paragraph in which he states ” The past 50 years of life under the Civil Rights Bill…” what can he mean by that? Is he saying that he is against people having civil rights? I would say by the rest of his letter he is.

As to what you stated about Native American tribes fighting among themselves for land. While that is true, they did not force the tribes they fought against onto reservations or force them on what amounted to death marches like the trail of tears.

George Fisher

Lewistown