It’s been said before but if public libraries weren’t a fact of society and were proposed today they would be roundly rejected as pie in the sky communism
“FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE???????? FREE BOOKS?!?!?!?!?!?! For….. POOR people????? That’s socialism!!!!! You’re a communist!!!!!! How DARE you suggest that we supply reading material to the POORS. I mean, are we even sure that they can read?? And how would we know that they would bring the books back? They would probably sell them to get drugs. Those people…. always trying to get drugs from the inner city. That’s what these libraries are, I tell you: a way for the poors to get drugs. They always use these ENTITLEMENTS and we, the rich people, are left holding the bag. I won’t stand for it. I won’t let these people read free books. A line has to be drawn somewhere.”