April 4's Letters to the Editor

Dear Edi­tor,
I am respond­ing to the inac­cu­rate Let­ter to the Edi­tor by Ms. Carver who really should have done more research prior her response to the “let­ter regard­ing the ‘Rush Lim­baugh’ controversy.”

Ms. Fluke was not invited to tes­tify because the democ­rats did not give Chair­man Issa the required 72 hour time frame to inves­ti­gate what Ms. Fluke would be speak­ing about. Dar­rell Issa’s Com­mit­tee was look­ing into whether or not Obama had the “con­sti­tu­tional author­ity to demand and man­date that Catholic uni­ver­si­ties (or churches or schools) pro­vide not just con­tra­cep­tion, but other med­ica­tion that facil­i­tates abor­tions (i.e., the morn­ing after pill) tak­ing place or that causes them to happen?”

That was the orig­i­nal pur­pose of Con­gress­man Issa’s hear­ing, and the com­mit­tee had a wit­ness lined up for the hear­ing whose name was Barry Lynn. I don’t know if he was the “male reli­gious leader” the writer spoke of but he was to tes­tify to Obama’s con­sti­tu­tional author­ity (or lack thereof) to the man­date. Late in the after­noon the democ­rats pulled Barry Lynn and said that they wanted San­dra Fluke to tes­tify instead. Dar­rell Issa inquired as to what Ms. Fluke was going to tes­tify about and wanted the required 72 hours to deter­mine whether she was an appro­pri­ate wit­ness for that par­tic­u­lar hearing.

Appar­ently the democ­rats knew that inves­ti­ga­tion would not pass the inves­tiga­tive test, so Pelosi and other female Democ­rats stage a press con­fer­ence (call­ing it con­gres­sional hear­ing). As for the con­tro­versy itself, I won’t wade too deeply into that, how­ever, it still amazes me that an unmar­ried young woman, or any woman for that mat­ter, would go to the United States Con­gress to dis­cuss her need for con­tra­cep­tion, tell them that she was unwill­ing to work to pay for it (because it would take her an entire sum­mer to pay for 3-years worth), and then tell them that she wanted the Amer­i­can peo­ple (through higher insur­ance pre­mi­ums) to pay for the contraceptives/morning after pills.

Keep in mind this young woman applied for and was accepted to a pri­vate Catholic law school of her choos­ing. Also, please keep in mind this con­gres­sional hear­ing was about to be about the con­sti­tu­tion­al­ity of Obama’s demand/mandate not about how expen­sive Ms. Fluke’s birth con­trol pills are and how she would have to work an entire sum­mer to pay for 3-years worth of them while going to law school.

Another point regard­ing Ms. Carver’s Let­ter to the Edi­tor, it always has trou­bled me when I read, “I am a Chris­t­ian myself but…“ You either are or you are not, there should be no “buts” about it. I lis­ten to Rush Lim­baugh every chance I get, he gives accu­rate facts and backs them up with doc­u­men­ta­tion. If you are will­ing to research his state­ments you will real­ize this state­ment is also a fact. Rush Lim­baugh was cor­rect in his assess­ment in the Fluke mat­ter; how­ever, as he indi­cated sev­eral times, the terms he used were ‘in-artful’ and on the level of democ­rats like Bill Mahr.

For now, Oba­macare is in the hands of the Supreme Court of the United States. Let us each pray to God that they remem­ber their oath of office, read the Con­sti­tu­tion, and fol­low it.
Cindy Fricke, Mount Gilead

Dear Edi­tor,
Will we let the magic of our schools fade? Already core teach­ers have been cut; the music pro­grams, dec­i­mated; clubs, orga­ni­za­tions and field trips, wiped out; pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment, all but gone. Per­haps the bones of edu­ca­tion remain but not the spirit.

Years ago the Ohio Supreme Court, mostly Repub­li­cans, ordered the leg­is­la­ture to make school fund­ing more equi­table. There were $17,000/per pupil spend­ing dis­crep­an­cies between rich and poor dis­tricts, and you can guess where Mor­row County was. The Ohio leg­is­la­ture (mostly Repub­li­can) refused to honor the Supreme Court’s rul­ing three or four times. The inequities between rich and poor school dis­tricts con­tinue to grow, rob­bing our won­der­ful kids of oppor­tu­ni­ties oth­ers take for granted.

Stim­u­lus funds held off some cuts, but Gov­er­nor Kasich’s bud­get axe is bit­ing into the quick of our schools. Now he says he wants to use a pro­posed increase in gas and oil drilling sev­er­ance taxes to give tax cuts instead of restor­ing funds to schools. That means money that belongs to the entire state will go pre­dom­i­nantly for tax cuts for the wealthy, who do not need even more money.

Are we just pro­vid­ing cheap labor for the wealthy or do we believe in equal access and oppor­tu­nity? Our kids deserve bet­ter. Let’s invest in them.
Jill Grubb, Ben­ning­ton Township

To the Edi­tor,
In response to the let­ters writ­ten in response to my let­ter regard­ing peo­ple in col­lege spend­ing sev­eral thou­sand dol­lars a year on birth con­trol, I must admit that I did not take into con­sid­er­a­tion the many health ben­e­fits that birth con­trol pills some­times afford women with health issues, hav­ing noth­ing to do with the con­trol of birth.

How­ever the larger point of my let­ter was the fact that under Oba­macare, the Reli­gious pre­cepts and beliefs of the orga­ni­za­tions that admin­is­ter cer­tain hos­pi­tals and uni­ver­si­ties are not even con­sid­ered and, there­fore, it is my belief that by man­dat­ing that these reli­gious affil­i­ated enti­ties adhere to the demands of the Gov­ern­ment, despite their own reli­gious beliefs, they are ignor­ing the Con­sti­tu­tion and the Free­dom of Reli­gion; that it affords and is such an inte­gral part of. The Gov­ern­ment is not per­mit­ted to force the Cit­i­zenry of Amer­ica to go against their own indi­vid­ual reli­gious beliefs.

Regard­ing my ref­er­ence to Pas­tor Neimoeller’s quo­ta­tion, whether it is ver­be­tum or not, the main idea, that if you do not care what the gov­ern­ment does or does not do, in regards to oth­ers and their cir­cum­stances, sim­ply because you do not share their beliefs or cir­cum­stances, is absolutely cor­rect. If you allow the Gov­ern­ment to run roughshod over oth­ers, and you do noth­ing, sooner or later, they will be run­ning roughshod over you and no one will be there to help you.

Lastly, sim­ply because I wrote my let­ter in response to all of the flack that arose, because of a com­ment by Rush Lim­baugh, does not make me a Rush Lim­baugh fan. If that were the case, every news hound on TV and Radio that brought up his remark would be con­sid­ered Rush Lim­baugh fans and that is cer­tainly not the case. I know Wolfe Blitzer and Rachel Mad­dow are def­i­nitely not fans of his, but they men­tion him and his quote, in a deroga­tory way, every chance they get. For the record, I think Mr. Lim­baugh is an arro­gant butthead, despite the fact that most, and I repeat most, of what he says regard­ing the Left seems to be true.
Thank You, Darl A. Mills, Mt. Gilead

To the Edi­tor,
I have asked before — where is the out­rage? I don’t know how many peo­ple read these let­ters to the Edi­tor. What I do know is that they don’t all show up at the Mor­row County TEA Party meet­ings. There have to be more than the 30 to 40 Constitution-loving peo­ple in this county that are will­ing to take a stand to pro­tect our free­dom and lib­erty that our Found­ing Fathers, with GOD’s bless­ing, gave us.

The Pro­gres­sive Move­ment entered our gov­ern­ment a hun­dred years ago under Teddy Roo­sevelt. Since that time Pro­gres­sivism has infil­trated our schools, uni­ver­si­ties, and the news media. Pro­gres­sivism is no less than social­ism and, ulti­mately, communism.

You tell me where in the world have social­ism and/or com­mu­nism been suc­cess­ful and good for their pop­u­la­tion. Now pro­gres­sives have teamed up with the big unions, mus­lim extrem­ists and the United Nations Agenda 21 to take down our way of life. Doesn’t this moti­vate you enough to tear your­self away from your “real­ity” TV and Star­bucks? These are very real threats, not sim­ply clichés. Our repub­lic is under attack! We are about to lose this coun­try and to have our Con­sti­tu­tion shredded.

If we lose FREEDOM here, where in the world can any­one go to live free? You were born at this time and place for a pur­pose. Start now to make a difference.

“We the Peo­ple” meet at the Mor­row County TEA Party every third Mon­day at the Mount Gilead Library Annex at 7:00 pm. Come and become edu­cated by knowl­edge­able speak­ers and infor­ma­tive films.
Nel­son Hack, Mount Gilead

Dear Edi­tor,
Hav­ing can­cer is hard. Find­ing help shouldn’t be. That’s why the Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety offers a num­ber of ser­vices to help peo­ple with can­cer and their fam­i­lies over­come obsta­cles in their per­sonal can­cer fight so they can focus on get­ting well.

One of the tough­est chal­lenges peo­ple face is get­ting to and from much-needed can­cer treat­ments. They may be too sick to drive them­selves, may not have a car or some­one to drive them, or may not be able to afford gas or other trans­porta­tion costs. The Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety pro­vides patients with free rides to treat­ment cen­ters, and that’s where you can help.
Your Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety is look­ing for peo­ple who can use their own vehi­cles to drive patients who are under­go­ing can­cer treat­ment to and from their appoint­ments. Inter­ested vol­un­teers can call Jen­nifer Knotts at 1.888.227.6446 ext 8057 or Candi Rotolo at ext. 3011 to find out more about this impor­tant pro­gram and how they can get involved. By giv­ing a lit­tle of your time, you can help save lives while ful­fill­ing your own.

We will be hold­ing an informational/training ses­sion on April 24 from 2:30–4:30 at the Mor­row County Helpline office. Please call if you are inter­ested in becom­ing a vol­un­teer for this life sav­ing pro­gram and would like to reg­is­ter for the ses­sion.
Sin­cerely,
Jen­nifer Knotts, Com­mu­nity Resource Nav­i­ga­tor, Dublin, OH

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