Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 42 Editor's Choice: 1
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Conservatives hate the troops!
[Read the article: Webb calls out McCain on G.I. bill comments]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Conservatives controlled all three branches of government from 2000 to 2006. During that time, they voted against funds for more body armor and better-armored vehicles. They also reduced benefits for veterans and oversaw failure after failure in the Veterans Administration to provide decent conditions and timely health care for veterans.
Since 2006, conservatives have controlled two branches of government plus the Senate, where they filibuster bills to their death.
Their history says clearly "We use the troops politically, but in actuality we hate the troops."
This latest effort, to water down the Webb bill, is just the latest effort to ignore the needs of our troops.
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"The Splurge"
[Read the article: The economic "stimulus" bonanza needs a new name]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just picture the White House, as the economy goes down, down, down insisting "The Splurge is working!"
They'll say "Give General Bernanke six months and he'll make a report to Congress about any further need for injections."
Then General Bernanke will ask for six more months, then six more months, then...
Get behind your President, America! The Splurge is working!!
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Why don't people research before writing articles???
[Read the article: Obama is wrong about the gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1. The federal gas tax is imposed at the refinery level, not at the pump. So it affects the price paid by the wholesaler.
2. There is a "crack spread" which is the difference between refinery input prices and the price they can sell their products for. Right now, the crack spread is extremely low, which is why refinery stock prices on Wall Street usually fall on the days that oil prices shoot upward.
3. Being businessmen, the managers of refineries would welcome the news "YOU (the refiners) don't have to pay a Federal gas tax this summer, thanks to Clinton/McCain".
4. Being businessmen, the managers of refineries would very, very likely sell their products to the wholesalers for the SAME price as before, thus keeping the money that would otherwise go to the tax man.
5. That would "widen the crack spread" and cause their beaten-down stock prices to go up.
6. Finally, because the refiners' earning have been so abysmal of late, no "windfall profit tax" would have much effect on them.
Conclusion: suspend the tax, make my shares of refiners stocks more valuable, probably no change in the RETAIL price of gas!!
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Why McCain wants to lower the tax
[Read the article: Why McCain's gas tax proposal is a good idea]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since the tax is paid only by PRODUCERS of oil products, not consumers, the oil refineries get to keep ALL the money!!!!!!
McCain is totally for the rich, so this way he suckers the ignorant consumers while enriching people like me who own oil refinery stock.
GO MCCAIN!! Government of the rich, by the rich, and FOR the rich!!!!
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Voter fraud among the rich
[Read the article: Ken Blackwell's warning about voter fraud]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The greatest amount of voter fraud is among the wealthy who own multiple homes in various states.
As the Ann Coulter case demonstrated, wealthy people can establish domicile at each address and register to vote.
They can jet from place to place during the election period and cast multiple votes.
A national data base should be established for federal elections, where proof of citizenship and social security numbers for the well-to-do could be checked by computer to avoid such fraud.
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"journalism"
[Read the article: CNN's iReport perpetrates false Steve Jobs rumor]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"journalism as a craft does mean something"
Oh, really????
Under Bush, the "professional journalists" of the White House press corps became pimps and whores carrying the water of the Far Right.
I've never read any press attacks from "journalists" condemning their capitulation to Pravda-style reporting.
With few exceptions, other "journalists" have failed to cover the massive crimes of the Bush
Administration, preferring the safer O.J.-style celebrity reports. Probably they were serving the billionaires who own the media outlets, but still - what exactly does the "craft" of journalism MEAN??