Aug. 3 Letters to the Editor

Wake up and smell the coffee

Barack Obama lies daily and our liberty and freedom die some daily.

If Obama’s health-care proposal passes, we may as well change the name of the country from the United States of America to the Socialist States of America. Only non-thinking people and free loaders favor Obama’s phony health care plan. Read it.

What about the fact that we owe red, oppressive, communist China almost $1 trillion? Have we forgotten that most of the Chinese goods that we buy in this country are made in sweatshops? Where have most of the American good paying jobs gone? Red China, that’s where.

If we don’t stop the proliferation in the manufacture of nuclear weapons by communist North Koreans and Iran, we can count on the fact that they will shoot them over here when they can.

Wake up, people, and smell the coffee. Obama needs to slow down and think things through before he destroys this country as we now know and love it.

Ken Spring

Longview

Profits help build homes

Residents of the area need to know about a newer business in Longview, a “ReStore,” opened by Cowlitz County Habitat for Humanity. This is a retail store, open to the public, manned almost completely by volunteers. Profits will help build more affordable homes in Cowlitz County.

The ReStore sells both new and gently used items donated by businesses and individuals. Shop this store for reasonably priced building supplies, furniture, appliances, doors, windows, toilets, sinks and more. What a great concept, recycle good usable items rather than depositing in landfills.

The ReStore is currently open Wednesday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and is located at 1145 11th Avenue in Longview. Donations are accepted during these hours, and, by phoning 636-6765, arrangements can be made to have larger items picked up.

A special thank you to those who gave so generously of their time and talent to get the ReStore opened. Thanks also to everyone making donations. Let’s shop here, save money and support the store. This is the type of store our area needs.

Donna Mansfield

Longview

Plan hurts seniors

The president’s health care plan, if passed, will be funded by $500 billion of cuts to senior citizens’ benefits. Although he says we can keep our current health-care plan if we like it, pages 16 and 17 contradict that. We will be forced into a government HMO and pay higher taxes for that.

Page 425 states that all people on Medicare will be forced to go through a counseling session every five years to help plan to end their life sooner. This includes a decline in nourishment and how to start planning with Hospice on giving comfort at the end. If a person has macular degeneration, he cannot get medical treatment for that until he goes completely blind in one eye.

If this bothers you, call or write your Congress people.

Bill Wells

Longview

Editorial creates smoke screen

The editorial published in the July 30 edition of The Daily News concerning the Employee Free Choice Act was unfortunate. Compare the editorial with the facts; they don’t add up. The editorial has created a smoke screen over these process issues.

Millions of non-union workers are right now taking pay cuts in this country with no voice over the outcomes of their livelihoods. Employers have suppressed workers rights, especially since the union-busting of Ronald Reagan in 1981. Older workers right now have no voice in this type of age discrimination.

The Employee Free Choice Act is good for the Untied States and for re-establishing the middle-class in this country. Unions raise the standard of living for all workers. Call your representatives and senators today and ask them to back a non-watered down version of the Employee Free Trade Act. And beware of twisted and re-framed editorials in this newspaper by those who would have everyone work for Wal-Mart, where there is always low wages.

Jody G. Hobson

Longview