Your liberties and rights are being eroded by the state and the Obama Administration. We are so complacent and ignorant to the news that sits right in front of us.

Many of the European Union states are literally burning as we speak because the entitlement mentality has clouded everyone's views of what the government should be and what it should provide. Save for your own retirement (like you should), pull yourselves up by your bootstraps and live like a proud American.

We have the health-care law that was passed in the dark of night (that supporters didn't have time to read), the bailouts of capitalist companies, the raising of taxes when the economy is souring — all symptoms of encroaching socialism.

Wake up, people. We are soon to be Greece and once that balance is shifted there is no turning back until the country is on fire.

K. Scott Wilson

Ellicott City