The Herald map that depicted voting results in Mercer County was interesting. Rural townships voted mostly Republican. They contain farmers, small business owners, wage earners and taxpayers who work and contribute to our economy. They can be labeled “Givers.”

Population centers voted mostly Democrat. They contain some home owners but also renters, trailer park and subsidized housing tenants, welfare and food stamp recipients, and many unemployed, uneducated and unmotivated residents. They can be labeled “Takers.”

Some Democratic politicians like to be considered “Givers” but they take from someone else before they give. They can also be labeled “Users.”

Population center residents, like some Herald writers, love Democratic politicians because they promise lots of freebees, something for nothing, income without working and now free health care and free college.

I consider all people who are paid with tax dollars to be “Takers.” Some are important like teachers and some are not like politicians. Retirees on Social Security and Medicare and veterans, like me, are “Takers” also but they earned it.

Democrats want to create more “Takers” which means there will be less “Givers.” Obama’s plan to share the wealth will work fine if you can share their wealth but not so good if they can share yours.

There are 150 numbers in the phone book’s Guide To Human Services with staff members waiting to furnish assistance to “Needers.”

Instead of creating more “Takers” we should be creating more “Givers.”

The government could create jobs immediately by exporting millions of illegal immigrant workers and by lowering business taxes and only enforcing realistic environmental restrictions.

They won’t.