Why is socialism OK for rich, but not rest of the America?

Frank Watson (“Socialism is a one-way trip to disaster,” Cheney Free Press, Aug. 1, 2019). I will defend his right to say whatever, but to allow this white-privileged, right-wing individual to spew without any rebuttal is what I really find objectionable.

His latest diatribe about the horrors of socialism is too much. We have in this country socialism for the richest, ever since Reagan’s trickledown nonsense. Why is it OK for them and not the rest of us?

I too am a vet. Unlike Frank, I was a grunt with frightened 18-year-old kids armed to the teeth hopped up on drugs or alcohol or both behind...