The Boston Globe has the letter to the editor, Hillary Clinton’s e-mail practices raise nagging security concerns.

I am a retired federal employee with 35 years’ experience. It was always impressed upon us that it was chiefly for security reasons that we were only to use our government e-mail accounts for work-related communication.

This letter is a perfect example of the danger of drawing conclusions from the similarities of two dissimilar things. The mistake is comparing the personal email of an ordinary person to that of a very wealthy former President and then drawing conclusions from that comparison. The ordinary person might have a free gmail account supplied by a giant corporation on the giant corporation’s computers. Gmail stores email that the giant corporation reads to look for clues as to what they might be able to sell you.

The Clintons’ email was set up on a private computer server in their private home while Bill Clinton was President. The home and the server is protected by a Secret Service contingent dedicated to that one task. The State Department probably has inspected and vouched for Hillary Clinton’s private system as opposed to the ordinary person’s free email which we already know is read by the supplier of the system.

This same error is made when people draw conclusions from comparing a family budget to that of the federal government which has the sole power of creating the money supply in this country. I wonder if people think about what would happen if they tried to pay their bills with money they created themselves. Might there be a difference in how to operate the two vastly different systems?