Oct. 24's Letters to the Editor

To the Editor,

Ques­tion to the com­mis­sion­ers: Is this an elec­tion year? In answer to Octo­ber 3rd editorial:

This year in 2012 has already held two elec­tions. A pri­mary elec­tion in May and a spe­cial elec­tion in August for the Buck­eye Val­ley schools. Did you for­get that this May Pri­mary was a vote for choos­ing new and qual­i­fied com­mis­sioner to over­see county obligations?

Quote from Olen Jack­son: “They {the Elec­tion Board} haven’t had a lot to do. They have II’ got to show a need for that money.” It is a statu­tory duty of Mor­row County to fund the Board of Elec­tions. The monies were approved and appro­pri­ated by the Audi­tor office in this fis­cal year. Only a small por­tion of the funds have been released, and not the full fund­ing already approved. What is this group of com­mis­sion­ers keep­ing this fund­ing for? We need com­mis­sion­ers that are con­cerned for our Board of Elec­tions mem­bers, poll work­ers and staff who con­sider the demo­c­ra­tic process of the county to be of impor­tance. John Gersper states in his creed “We must bring val­ues to back to Mor­row County Gov­ern­ment.” In my opin­ion, to fill the need of the cit­i­zens of Mor­row County, we need to Vote for John Gersper and Glenda Wil­son to fill the void in the Commissioner’s office and make the change for the better.

Doug Lawrence, Mount Gilead

To the Editor,

Twelve mil­lion new jobs, that is what Mitt Rom­ney says he can create.

How many new homes Amer­i­can work­ers build? How many new Amer­i­can cars would we buy?How many young peo­ple could pay col­lege loans? How many mil­lions more dol­lars would fill up city, state, and fed­eral coffers?

On www.braincap.com is the most won­der­ful story of job cre­ation in Amer­ica. Mitt was one founder. 49,000 new jobs were cre­ated since 1948, 65 bil­lion in assets managed.

School teach­ers insist pen­sion money. They fixed many fail­ing com­pa­nies. They went into a corn field in Indi­ana and started Steel Dynam­ics, today’s #1 Amer­i­can Steel Com­pany, capa­ble of com­pet­ing against Chi­nese steel.

Half of our col­lege grad­u­ates can’t find a job. 23 mil­lion Amer­i­cans can’t find a job or are unem­ployed. Now there is a hope for peo­ple who need a job.

Jim Henes, Cuya­hoga Falls

Dear Edi­tor,

At this week’s Mor­row County Can­di­date night, there was one topic which brought spir­ited dis­cus­sion to the forum. The topic was coal and I believe it is nec­es­sary to address it in more detail.

Over-regulation by the Obama admin­is­tra­tion has put the coal indus­try under attack, and will cost jobs. Amer­i­can coal com­pa­nies are sad­dled with EPA reg­u­la­tions not seen by our com­peti­tors. Coun­tries like Brazil and China don’t have to com­pete with one hand tied behind their back. The cost of doing busi­ness in the United States con­tin­ues to rise.

New reg­u­la­tions set to go into effect after the elec­tions are expected to cost 183,000 jobs per year through 2020. Increas­ing costs and decreased coal use will drive the price of nat­ural gas upward cost­ing the aver­age U.S. fam­ily up to an addi­tional $270 per year in dis­pos­able income. I firmly oppose these new bur­den­some reg­u­la­tions, and will fight in Con­gress to stop them. Some believe that we can’t have a healthy envi­ron­ment while allow­ing busi­nesses to pros­per; that’s false. Bal­anced reg­u­la­tions will allow our Amer­i­can busi­nesses to remain com­pet­i­tive with other world-wide com­pa­nies while pro­tect­ing resources for future generations.

Pat Tiberi Mem­ber of Con­gress, OH-12

To the Editor,

”Democ­racy dies as soon as peo­ple real­ize they can vote them­selves money.” Alexis de Toc­queville. “It is incum­bent on every gen­er­a­tion to pay its own debts as it goes. A prin­ci­ple which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.” Thomas Jefferson

My fel­low Amer­i­cans, We The Peo­ple of these United States are addicted to enti­tle­ments. Like all addicts we face the choice of wean­ing our­selves off of enti­tle­ments with a lit­tle pain or going cold turkey with a lot of pain. We can wean our­selves off of enti­tle­ments by ask­ing and then requir­ing our polit­i­cal lead­ers to take action. It requires lead­er­ship and courage, but we will need to do this to avoid hav­ing our chil­dren and grand­chil­dren pay­ing off the enti­tle­ment debt that we have accumulated.

Here are some things we can do. We can slowly raise the tax rates and end var­i­ous deduc­tions for every­one. We ran up this debt and we need to pay it down. Deduc­tions for var­i­ous busi­ness expenses, health insur­ance and health care, state and local taxes, char­ity giv­ing and mort­gage inter­est should be ended. Employee health ben­e­fits should be taxed as income. In five years fed­eral rev­enue should be 20% of GNP.

Then we need to wean our­selves off enti­tle­ments. By the way, tax deduc­tions and cred­its are enti­tle­ments. We should do a needs test for Social Secu­rity and Medicare. If we have over $500,000 in sav­ings and invest­ments at retire­ment we should pay our own way in life. We should also pay for our own health insur­ance. We should slowly end all farm sub­si­dies so that in five years they no longer exist. We should end sub­si­dies for energy from oil to ethanol over the next five years. We spend more on defense than the next 17 nations com­bined. We have 11 air­craft car­rier bat­tle groups and no other nation has one. We should freeze defense spend­ing at present lev­els and slowly lower it over the next five years. In five years fed­eral spend­ing should be 20% of the GNP.

That bal­ances our bud­get and pro­vides the politi­cians with plenty of money to pro­vide for the national defense and pro­mote the gen­eral wel­fare as well as pay down our debt. If we are truly a nation of self suf­fi­cient indi­vid­u­als then we should live like it. If we do this over the next five years we will have some pain. How­ever, if we put this off and kick the chal­lenges down the road the pain will be great and threaten the very fab­ric of Amer­i­can society.

Richard Jones, Chesterville

Dear Edi­tor,

Right now in Ohio we have 23 Repub­li­cans and 10 Democ­rats in the Ohio Sen­ate. Statewide Repub­li­cans and Democ­rats are reg­is­tered in almost equal num­bers. The cur­rent ger­ry­man­der­ing, an out­growth of ear­lier ger­ry­man­der­ing, has allowed one party to grant them­selves dis­pro­por­tion­ate con­trol of our state.

A YES vote on Issue 2 would put redis­trict­ing in the hands of fairly selected and evenly bal­anced cit­i­zens. If prob­lems arose, they would be han­dled by the Ohio Supreme Court. They do not give them­selves pay raises. They can­not run amuck, as cur­rent leg­is­la­tors have done in their secret sessions.

Cit­i­zens are robbed of fair rep­re­sen­ta­tion when one party has total con­trol over dis­tricts. Here’s our chance to make them fair, com­pact, bal­anced, and demo­c­ra­tic. With more bal­ance, per­haps our leg­is­la­tors will be more will­ing to lis­ten to every­one and work on com­pro­mises to move our state and coun­try forward.

Jill Grubb, Ben­ning­ton West Township

To the Editor,

Josh Man­del was impres­sive in the debate last night with Sher­rod Brown. Josh served two tours in Iraq and has cut Ohio’s bud­get two years in a row. He sup­ports the sec­ond amend­ment, key­stone pipeline, and revis­ing the tax code.

While Sen­a­tor Brown has been in office the credit rat­ing of the United States was down­graded for the first time in our his­tory and we are 16 TRILLION in the red. Pres­i­dent Obama sent Air Force One to Ohio to pick up Sher­rod and fly him back to Wash­ing­ton for the decid­ing vote for Oba­macare. The cost of Air Force One for one hour is $179,750.

Mr. Brown has voted 36 times to raise our taxes and to raise the debt limit. He is against the Key­stone Pipeline and is for the tougher EPA reg­u­la­tions that will close Ohio’s coal-fired power plants that will raise the cost of our electric.

Sen­a­tor Brown voted to con­firm anti-second amend­ment Jus­tices Sotomayor and Kagan. He refused to sign a bipar­ti­san let­ters oppos­ing any inter­na­tional gun ban treaty by the United Nations to impose restric­tions on Amer­i­can Gun Owners.

Sher­rod Brown has been in Wash­ing­ton a long time and has voted with Obama 95% of the time.

Judy Lawrence, Galion

Dear Edi­tor:

I have heard enough slams against our Pres­i­dent to last sev­eral life times. What ever hap­pened to the say­ing ‘if you don’t have any­thing good to say, say Noth­ing at all’?

It is time to real­ize how respectable Pres­i­dent Obama is and a great Pres­i­dent in my opinion.

For him to even run for pres­i­dent four years ago when our coun­try was in such a ter­ri­ble mess says a lot about his char­ac­ter and the type of per­son Pres­i­dent Barack Obama is. He wants to do GOOD and cor­rect the prob­lems fac­ing him when he came into office. He wants to HELP peo­ple because he cares; and no one per­son will EVER please every­one –but this Pres­i­dent, Our Pres­i­dent, has done the best he can. He has done the Most Good for the Most Peo­ple. It has taken years for our coun­try to get into this shape and it will take time to get us back to good and we are head­ing in the right direction.

I believe and trust in our Pres­i­dent — we, as Amer­i­cans, should back the leader of our United States of Amer­ica. Our Pres­i­dent is, in my opin­ion, one of the best Pres­i­dents this coun­try has ever had. He sets a per­fect exam­ple for all of us — of striv­ing for the good of oth­ers — the way fam­i­lies should love and care for one another — of treat­ing oth­ers with con­cern and com­pas­sion — of using his intel­li­gence, insight and level head­ed­ness to make our nation bet­ter going for­ward. Pres­i­dent Obama’s plan for our coun­try is work­ing — I’ve seen this with my own eyes; not only in my own life but in the lives of oth­ers. There really are jobs now! Just look in the paper or online — there are many posi­tions avail­able and jobs means growth.

Pres­i­dent Obama has the gifts of knowl­edge and for­ti­tude to know and do what needs to be done and the strength and resilience to do what he must for ALL of us.

Instead of throw­ing stones, we should, as Amer­i­cans, be pray­ing for our coun­try and for the Leader of our country.

Denise Jan­ick, Cardington

Dear Edi­tor,

In 1999 I became a Licensed Prac­ti­cal Nurse (LPN), from the school of prac­ti­cal nurs­ing at Tri Rivers Career Cen­ter. My skills and edu­ca­tion have lead me to a life of help­ing oth­ers at the bed side and as an edu­ca­tor for a state tested nurse aide (STNA) classes in Mar­ion, Oh.

Thir­teen years later I find myself back at Tri Rivers pur­su­ing my edu­ca­tion to become a Reg­is­tered Nurse (RN) in the LPN to RN tran­si­tion pro­gram for Adult Edu­ca­tion. I feel that Tri Rivers is not just a high school career cen­ter, but a life­long learn­ing cen­ter that gives back to the com­mu­nity in the qual­ity stu­dents that become the work­force of tomorrow.

Please sup­port the levy for Tri Rivers to keep the future work­force in Mar­ion and sur­round­ing coun­ties grow­ing strong with knowledge.

Angela High, Cardington

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