NDP is no friend of working people

Re: “NDP isn’t fighting for the underdog,” Letter, Aug. 20.

Unfortunately, it’s the same NDP carny barker come-on they’ve used to pluck the working pigeon since they first came into existence. I recall the B.C. NDP doing as much in the 1970s. They co-opted and politicized the youth slang and causes of the time to get the young folks out to the polls and played the working-class hero card.

Upon gaining power, the first move was always to borrow obscene amounts of money no real working person could ever dream of paying back. Then the new laws came thick and fast. Always top down. Always as freedom destroying as possible. Always punitive to as many as possible.

These so-called friends of the working class were in essence attempting to re-engineer regular people who they didn’t understand into some vague utopian citizen they couldn’t agree on themselves. Naturally, B.C.’s economy tanked. Then Saskatchewan’s. Most recently, Ontario’s.

You really want to act in the working man’s interest? Leave his/her freedoms alone — financial as well as legal. Maybe even get to know some of them as real people. A real leader knows when to leave matters alone, as well as when to act. Guy Plecash, Calgary