From the Oct. 16 issue of the Gladwin County Record and Beaverton Clarion:
Not the America I grew up in
To the Editor:
There are
people who receive their news from various sources, some from newspapers
like the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News or CNN, MSNBC, Fox News.
Maybe some don’t bother to get their news from anywhere but their own
neighborhood coffee shops or the local weekly newspaper.
When I
read the letters to the editor it more than perturbed me to read a
person quoting our President, saying he was putting fences around our
national monuments to “punish our enemies.”
I read the Detroit
Free Press and Detroit News most days and watch CNN and MSNBC, and I
never once heard him say that! I’m wondering if it may have been on Fox
News? It is the next best reliable news channel to picking up a tabloid
at the grocery store!
I think the reporters seem to trash-talk
Obama. Its viewers are a certain segment of our society with low IQs and
bigotry and intolerance for our half white/half black leader.
I’ve
never seen any letters in our local paper praising him, ever! Our state
voted overwhelmingly for mostly Democratic presidents, so where are the
loyalists to him? For God’s sake, will you speak up?
I’m sorry
the vets couldn’t visit their special places of honor. I’m sorry
national parks are also shut down, and for all the other sacrifices to
many citizens.
Let’s see who shut down our government? People in
Congress, mainly the Republicans who would love to destroy the
Affordable Care Act and won’t let go of trying to do their best to
rewrite history by taking Obama out of the history books!
Mitch
McConnell came out right after the first election making the statement,
“The main purpose should be to destroy President Obama.” Now he’s saying
“enough is enough, we need to come to an agreement.”
Speaker
Boehner isn’t strong enough to stand up to the Tea Party nuts, so now
that the Republican Party’s ratings are at an all time low they’re
finally coming to their senses and maybe, just maybe, this mess will end
very soon!
Who remembers GWB giving away cash to his countrymen
and not vetoing one spending bill, and starting an unnecessary war? He
never increased taxes to start paying for either war!
That was the
war where Halliburton went in and rebuilt the destruction we made, and
where other American construction companies made repairs without paying
one cent of American tax dollars.
Do you think President Obama enjoys mopping up all his messes plus getting handed the Great Recession?
The
national debt has decreased by 50 percent, the economy is getting
better, but taxes are almost as low as they were in the 1950s.
We’ve
experienced one national disaster after another. The disparity between
the top one percent and the rest of us is widening more and more. All
the while the Republicans say no to new revenues!
What the hell is
supposed to pay for the crumbling infrastructure we have? Face reality
Americans. You can’t fix something out of nothing unless you’re Almighty
God!
Move to another country if you hate the way things are going and pray to end bigotry and hatred!
Kathy Randle
Beaverton
P.S. I’m Irish and democrat.
From the Oct. 23 issue of the Gladwin County Record and Beaverton Clarion:
In response to Mrs Randle’s Oct. 16 letter,
“Not the America I grew up in”
To the Editor:
I also believe that this is not the America I grew up in.
I’ll
go as far as to say major news networks are slanted with an agenda to
push, and that agenda is profit. The ratings bring their reward. News
used to be objective, and a free press was a valuable tool to protect
society from the overreaches government power introduces. When the media
stops being objective, and starts reporting news subjectively slanted
towards a demographic, it is no longer news – it is propaganda.
And it takes place in all major outlets. Why would it not?
Considering GE (General Electric) owns NBC and MSNBC…. GE also owns:
CNBC
, A&E, The Biography Channel, The History Channel, History Channel
International, The History Channel en Español, Military History Channel,
Crime & Investigation Network, Bravo, Telemundo, and Universal
Studios.
CNN is owned by AOL-Time Warner Corp. They also own HBO,
Cartoon Network (which, like the news, can brainwash children), Warner
Bros., New Line Cinema, Turner Classics, The CW Channel, various
internet and telecommunications companies and more.
Massive
corporations dominate the U.S. media landscape. Through a history of
mergers and acquisitions, these companies have concentrated their
control over what we see, hear and read. In many cases, these companies
are vertically integrated, controlling everything from initial
production to final distribution.
I do find it easy to see the
connection of putting fences around open air monuments and national
parks as making it uncomfortable for citizens, while demonizing the
opposition to the president’s signature legislation (The Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act). It could be argued that gating off
the monuments and parks is more costly than keeping them open, which
gives credence to the accusations of citizen punishment.
In
regards to the incessant accusations of racism by any who oppose the
sitting president, it is wearing thin. While it may work against
politically weak leadership, the common sense American citizen sees
squarely through the hatred that the Liberal Left continues to manifest
in their efforts to further divide this country if steady and timely
leftist progress is not made.
While racism may never be completely
purged from society, I can assure you it is the president’s failing
policies that have stirred America’s sleeping – and usually silent –
moral majority.
I will agree that it would be best if Mitch
McConnell and speaker Boehner would step down now, but not for shutting
down the government, which is an absolute spin since the House of
Representatives voted and passed multiple spending resolutions up to and
including fully funding the government with a one year suspension of
the ACA mandate; but because they have betrayed the conservative base of
America that have been literally melting phone lines to representatives
telling them to stay firm.
I do not see where low approval
ratings for Republicans are of any concern to the American Left except
for celebration. The last time I checked, Government’s overall approval
is in the teens of percents.
The Left loves reminding us of GWB
and his unfunded wars. But as the liberal leaders in Congress beat war
drums to support BHO and his quest for war, the silence is deafening as
questions about Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and the IRS acting as
political adversary mob thugs go unanswered.
To counter the
misstatement that the national debt has decreased by 50 percent begs an
American grade schooler to question – if that is so, why has our debt
ceiling been raised for the 79th time? And how have we just crested the
17 trillion dollar debt level, not including unfunded liabilities quite
possibly into the 100 trillion dollar range?
Also, as far as tax
rates, 43 percent of Americans will pay zero federal income tax due to
tax credits, while our country has the highest combined corporate tax
rates in the world, which encourages the creation of multinational
corporations not returning profits made abroad back into the U.S.
economy.
(We can thank our convoluted tax system for that; blame
whomever you wish. The TEA party doesn’t care who’s to blame for that -
wrong is wrong.)
Also, to address the income disparity of the rich
and poor, it should be easy to see that increased inflation due to
failed economic policies will disproportionately affect the poor on
fixed incomes, while the costs of goods and services continue to rise
with the weakening of our dollar, and the small to large business’ raise
their fees to maintain viable budgets and profits.
Last but not
least, the Federal government has never collected more tax revenue in
the history of this country. And the crumbling roads and bridges could
be funded handily if we work together to pare down our over-extended
federal partner, and push it back down into the box of enumerated powers
and responsibilities that our framers intended. Make States take back
their sovereign responsibilities and re-institute at all state and local
levels the stigma attached to taking handouts that are not necessary
and actually contribute to our looming national financial crisis.
The
TEA party folks across this land are not terrorists. They are the
American bell ringers who have woken up to this progressive train ride
engineered by revolving donkeys and elephants who are either to weak to
apply the brakes, or fully willing to lead us into the moral, fiscal,
and Constitutional tragedy which lies ahead.
By our nation’s
repentance, the dedicated service of citizen patriots, and the divine
providence of God, these United States may just remain the Sweet Land of
Liberty.
Tab Faber
Beaverton
P.S. We’re fully assimilated Americans.
