{"id":46838,"date":"2020-09-30T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=46838"},"modified":"2020-09-30T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:56:19","slug":"letter-emmons-is-wrong-for-pa-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=46838","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Emmons is wrong for PA-6"},"content":{"rendered":"

To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This Election Day, voters in Chester and Berks counties selecting their representative in Congress will have to choose between a military veteran with a solid record of public service, and a virtually unknown man whose only apparent accolade has been his record of success in business.\u00a0 <\/span>That, in short, is the choice for voters in Pennsylvania\u2019s 6th district.<\/p>\n

John Emmons has never served a day in public office.\u00a0 <\/span>He has never put on a uniform to defend American freedom.\u00a0 <\/span>He is attempting to go from zero to Congressman on the sole argument of his victories in a capitalist enterprise.\u00a0 <\/span>That will take you far in America for sure, but he has to convince the people he\u2019s asking to represent that he can do a better job at crafting public policy which will affect the lives of not just Pennsylvanians, but everyone across the country.<\/p>\n

What is it about being a businessman that makes one qualified for public office?\u00a0 <\/span>The argument seems to always be that a businessman knows how to create jobs.\u00a0 <\/span>But anyone who has ever had a job knows that employees are too often viewed simply as company resources by their management.\u00a0 <\/span>That stands in clear contrast to the job of a public servant, which requires the ability to truly see the humanity of all the people whom you represent.<\/p>\n

Businessmen don\u2019t create jobs out of a sense of charity for the prospective workers.\u00a0 <\/span>They create jobs to enrich their company and themselves.\u00a0 <\/span>Further, and more important, is that the goal of business is never to create the most jobs possible with good pay and quality of life; the goal is to maximize productivity with as few people as are necessary, because the real goal is to create profit – for the businessman.\u00a0 <\/span>This kind of mentality is not one which nurtures the common interest of the public, and a lifetime of this behavior does nothing to prepare one for the responsibilities of holding a government office.<\/p>\n

Chrissy Houlahan has honorably served the American people for decades.\u00a0 <\/span>I ask voters in Pennsylvania\u2019s 6th district to let her actions speak louder than Emmons\u2019 words.\u00a0 <\/span>We\u2019ve seen the results of trusting someone who boasts about their business acumen as a reason why they deserve power.\u00a0 <\/span>The problem is that you can never be sure what he\u2019ll do with it.<\/p>\n

Thomas McCarthy,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Valley<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To The Editor, This Election Day, voters in Chester and Berks counties selecting their representative in Congress will have to choose between a military veteran with a solid record of public service, and a virtually unknown man whose only apparent accolade has been his record of success in business.\u00a0 That, in short, is the choice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12429,12428,13362,13361],"class_list":["post-46838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-election-2020","tag-john-emmons","tag-pa-6","tag-thomas-mccarthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46839,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46838\/revisions\/46839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}