Dear Editor:
An inspirational quote of "Build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door" continues to be distorted to "Naughty boys will get their comeuppance."
It is a mob beating a path to your door and their angst is all your fault.
Along the same line as the game show "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" is now the question, "Who would want to be a Millionaire?"
Hard work and sacrifice isn't just being quietly replaced by game shows and lottery tickets, there are angry mobs harassing your business, threatening your family at your very home. Accusations are easy to make (you're rich, you cheated) and it doesn't have to be proven. You just gin up some hate (class warfare) and you're good to go.
Every barrier to upward mobility is actually a law/regulation imposed by elected/unelected governmental officials. The same premise is being used in the argument over gun control where a knee-jerk reaction pummels freedoms that the law-abiding American citizen can exercise.
To that finger being pointed, remember, there are three pointing back at the accuser, and if you think me to be a hypocrite, it takes one to call one.
William Eardley
East Liverpool
