A bad situation
Monday, October 6, 2008 8:47 AM PDT
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A bad situation
This is to make you aware of a very bad situation near R.A. Long High School in Longview.
Students are congregating on the sidewalk across the street from the school to smoke and converse before school in the morning, between classes and after school.
This sometimes results in students skipping the next class by walking in the alleys near the school. At times students will spend an entire class on the sidewalk.
The result of this behavior is: loss of education by those students; violation of school rules of no tobacco products on school property; violation of law with children under the age of 18 smoking; students learning they do not have to obey the law; damage to future health of students; and violation of anti-littering law.
James O. Riner
Longview
Debts, credits and a vote
Well, well. So Brian Baird ignored his constituents and voted for bailing out banks and brokerages. He supports the little guy, huh? I don’t think so.
It’s sad to see a Congress with so little brains anywhere. Here we have a credit/debt problem and what do they do? They want to give credit/debt money out. How foolish is that? There is no viable solution that intervention can do to solve this problem. The issue requires the eradication of debt so that businesses and citizens can have lower cost requirements to be competitive. However, forced debt reduction will destroy investor confidence.
Any postponement of this correction will come back and haunt us in the near future. Congress will have compounded the problem, not solved it. Do you really think the banks will be wise with the new credit the government gives them? I don’t. Sorry.
Richard Glenn
Longview
Time for America to wake up
Please urge your senators to pass the upcoming E-Verify Senate bill. The bill compels an employer to check the documents of those seeking employment. This program has a 92 percent success at weeding out illegal workers.
The Democratic Senate would like not to renew this bill. They say it will hurt the economy if we don’t use these people. I would ask, “What economy?”
With more and more American citizens losing their jobs, I can’t help but feel that some of those people would gladly work in some of the jobs now being worked by illegals.
With 12 million illegals in this country, we need a fair shake for the legal population.
John Stark
Woodland
Typical politician
Did anyone notice that when the bailout bill didn’t pass on Monday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blamed the Republicans? Before Friday’s vote she praised bipartisanship for voting down a bill that she says was flawed, but is now a good compromise.
Typical politician; she speaks through both sides of her mouth.
Judy Merila
Longview
Accountability is needed
It is totally amazing to us, just how much the American people will put up with from our “leadership” in Washington. It seems their primary function is to see how much debt they can create for the citizens to pay. Here are just a few issues:
• In the ‘90s they wrote legislation to allow the lending agencies to make bad loans to folks who could not repay them.
• They allowed the chairmen of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to run the whole program into the ground and squander hundreds of millions of dollars.
• They scuttled attempts to provide oversight to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and get their house in order.
• The recent bailout figures of $700 billion were set at three times the amount needed to buy up every defaulted loan. Ever wonder where the rest of the dollars were headed?
• The Senate just passed a new bailout bill, to which they added more than $100 billion in pork amendments.
• All of this and our news media will not tell the people the full story. Wouldn’t you think they’d at least provide the names of the senators who added on these extra billions?
Some accountability is desperately needed, but apparently most Americans are asleep.
Judith Schwindt
Silver Lake
One question unanswered
There is one question about the $700 billion taxpayer-funded bailout of Wall Street that no one seems to be asking: Is it constitutional? Just where, exactly, does our Constitution grant the power to the federal government to manipulate the free market?
Over the years, the Feds lent our money to Chrysler and some other private enterprises based on the notion that they were “too big to fail.” Bill Clinton bailed out Mexico with our money — but not with our permission.
Now the spoiled brats of Wall Street come begging, hat in hand, because they don’t want to face the consequences of their own bad decisions. They want to saddle us with that burden.
President Bush seems to be OK with that. The Democrats are OK with that. But is it constitutional? Or is it just flat out robbery?
Sharon Ashford
Longview
Vote pro-life
On Nov. 17, my doctor told me there was a 98 percent chance I would only live five more years. Yes, even with a heart and lung transplant. I felt terrified of having a heart and lung transplant. He said my congestive heart failure was like the big “C.” I got a second opinion and doctor “B” confirmed of the 28 people with my disease, only two improved slightly.
Of course, my general health was bad — shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, very tired and very down.
Under Initiative 1000 I would have felt justified in asking for the overdose of barbiturates to kill myself.
Or, as we all know, anyone can quit living (eating, etc.) and die whenever they want. It’s not illegal, just stupid. Many people, I am sure, have felt like checking out early from time to time.
In my case I had 1,000 friends and family praying and caring for me and many doctors working hard to get me to where I can now picket Planned Parenthood in Vancouver a few hours one day a week. Yesterday they did 12 abortions.
There are 12 grandkids from Vancouver who will never see the light of day. I am sure they were all “beautiful Babies.”
Please vote pro-life and against I-1000.
Jerry Ross
Kalama
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