A brief lesson on egomaniacs

Dear editor: Recently, Tom Isherwood made a point of being brief in letter submissions (Herald, Letters, Dec. 27)

Hopefully he won’t find this one too disappointing as the point can be made clearly and briefly and I don’t think that there would be too many dissenters.

The fact of the matter is Trump would seem to be suffering from an inferiority complex or unfulfilled ambition.

Wait… maybe it’s that dastardly villain better known as egomania, which is known as an obsessive preoccupation with one’s self and applies to someone who follows their own ungoverned impulses and is possessed by delusions of personal greatness and feels a lack of appreciation.

Someone suffering from this extreme egocentric focus is an egomaniac. This condition is said to be psychologically abnormal. Any questions?

Tom, hopefully this will keep you writing and contributing in 2018.

Happy new year to you and all others who contribute to the Herald! Ron Barillaro Penticton at the food bank. Is it because the people that ran out of EI are no longer mentioned on the unemployment list anymore?

You say, “public healthcare, has lifted over 315,000 out of poverty.”

Please go to the food bank and ask them to give you their answer.

You say, “we have seen pension increases for single seniors.”

Did you forget how much rent went up? How much food has gone up? All this in the past 10 years and you make it sound as though seniors are now rich. We are in the same trench trying to find a way up.

You say, “a new housing strategy for the homeless.”

Mr. Rice, you obviously do not know the street people very well.

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Joseph Hayes Lake Country