In the letter the citizen said how much she liked the government and suggested that those of us who do not like the government should send back our Social Security checks, send back our disability checks, send back our welfare checks and send back our VA checks.

To begin, I take particular offense to the idea that I should send back my VA check. I will send back my VA check just as soon as I can send back the 13-inch scar running down my arm resulting from an Iraqi rocket propelled grenade explosion.

I will send back my VA check when I regain the feeling in my ring and small fingers on my right hand from the same explosion. I will send back my VA check when I find the other half of my front tooth that was knocked out when my light armored vehicle drove into a 10-foot-deep tank ditch at 30 mph and my face was slammed into a gunner's periscope.

My point is I have earned my government pension and of all of the government checks that the St. Clair resident suggested be sent back the only one that is actually constitutional is in fact the VA check! Every other government agency, i.e., Social Security, welfare and many others are simply and completely unconstitutional!

Yes, please do send back your checks, send them all back!
We are a country founded on personal responsibility and liberty and when we accept the government checks of which you love so much you give your liberty away.

Please, please consider how much more money you would have had if you had invested or saved your weekly usurpation to Social Security and actually earned decent interest!

You can have your measly Social Security check ma'am I'll take care of my own finances. Besides, I am 30 years old - at the current rate there will be no Social Security check for me to send back anyway.

Stop letting the government take care of you, let's take care of ourselves!