October 10th Letters to the Editor

To the Editor,

Ohio gets 80% of its elec­tric from coal-fired power plants. Ten plants in Ohio will close by 2015 because of EPA regulations.

The House sent thirty bills to the Sen­ate that have never been brought up for a vote. The Sen­ate has not passed a bud­get for THREE years.

Since a bud­get has not been passed a seques­tra­tion of 1.2 tril­lion in reduc­tions over the next ten years will take effect in Jan­u­ary. The Defense Depart­ment has 55 bil­lion in cuts imme­di­ately with 108,000 civil­ian and 270,000 fed­eral employ­ees will los­ing their jobs.

Ambas­sador Chris Stevens asked for extra secu­rity and was denied. There were many inci­dents before he was beaten, sodom­ized and dragged through the streets. The Pres­i­dent has missed ½ of his secu­rity brief­ings includ­ing the day after the murders.

Medicare is going BROKE the solu­tion is to take 716 BILLION out of Medicare pay­ments to doc­tors and hos­pi­tals. The Repub­li­can solu­tion has NO CHANGE for any­one now 55 or older. When peo­ple under 55 apply for Medicare they CAN choose from reg­u­lar Medicare or other options. The wealthy will pay more for Medicare.

We now are 16 TRILLION in the red and bor­row 40 cents out of every dol­lar we spend. Gov­er­nor Rom­ney wants to revise the tax code and lower taxes for the mid­dle class and small busi­ness to pro­vide more jobs. He does not want to lower taxes for the rich but take away some deduc­tions for the rich.

There are 23 mil­lion Amer­i­cans that are unem­ployed or under­em­ployed and 47 mil­lion are on food stamps. Is it any won­der why they want to change the sub­ject to war on women? It is really a war on RELIGON. Why should Catholic Church be forced to pay for birth control?

While Gov­er­nor of Mass­a­chu­setts Mitt worked with an 85% Demo­c­ra­tic leg­is­la­ture. He bal­anced the bud­get every year and improved edu­ca­tion. He res­cued the Olympics that was cor­rupt and mil­lions in debt. He help start com­pa­nies like Sta­ples, Sports Author­ity and many others.

Judy Lawrence, Galion

To the Editor,

In a recent let­ter to the edi­tor the writer listed a num­ber of sit­u­a­tions since 2009, all seem­ingly neg­a­tive and pre­sum­ably attrib­ut­able to Pres­i­dent Obama.

Some have lit­tle or no rel­e­vance, and some are just plain wrong. On one point you can’t have it both ways. The United Nations can’t be inept and unable to accom­plish the sim­plest task dur­ing one Pres­i­dency and mas­ter­mind of a one world gov­ern­ment to be feared dur­ing the next. I enjoy a good dis­cus­sion even with peo­ple that dis­agree with me. I do have a prob­lem with distortion.

The most dis­turb­ing to me is a state­ment that is meant to mis­lead, but is tech­ni­cally not a lie. The great­est exam­ple of this is the many times repeated state­ment “we had no idea that ter­ror­ists would fly planes into the world trade cen­ter on the morn­ing of Sep­tem­ber 11th”. As it turned out that they did know of plans like this months before, but took no action. This state­ment was meant to mis­lead, but tech­ni­cally not a lie because it was too spe­cific with the inclu­sion of morn­ing of Sep­tem­ber 11th.

This hap­pens all the time. Any­time some­one seems way too spe­cific it just might be weasel words. When Mitt Rom­ney says that The Pres­i­dent has not signed one trade agree­ment it is not tech­ni­cally a lie since he has actu­ally signed three, but the dis­tor­tion sends a def­i­nite mes­sage. When Mitt Rom­ney said dur­ing the debate that he had not pre­vi­ously said he was going to cut taxes five tril­lion dol­lars it was not tech­ni­cally a lie because he had used 20% and 25% which just hap­pened to ad up to nearly five tril­lion dol­lars and are weasel words.

The list goes on and all you need to remem­ber is Mitt Rom­ney, Paul Ryan, and Josh Man­del have never told a sin­gle lie!

Jim Clark, Marengo

Dear Sir or Madam:

It seems that some Amer­i­cans must really be into Sado-Masochism (S&M) in that they take plea­sure in hav­ing pain and suf­fer­ing inflicted upon them­selves or inflict­ing pain and suf­fer­ing on others.

We have an unem­ploy­ment rate of over 8 per­cent, but still many folks think noth­ing of that and seem to want more of the same.

We have a deficit of over 16 TRILLION dol­lars, but many folks think noth­ing of that and want more of the same.

We have a prob­lem with folks com­ing into OUR coun­try ille­gally, to the point that we reward those who have and are still com­ing, which only adds to the Unem­ploy­ment Num­bers, but many folks think noth­ing of that and want more of the same.

Many folks don’t even want folks who vote, to prove who they are, leav­ing the door open for voter fraud.

Even though Amer­ica was founded on the Judeo Chris­t­ian Ethic, many folks seem to have a prob­lem acknowl­edg­ing God and His benev­o­lence and we have been steadily mov­ing away from Him, but many folks think that is ok and want more of the same.

Our Con­sti­tu­tion says that as Amer­i­can Cit­i­zens, we are guar­an­teed, LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS and nowhere does it say that those rights should be denied, sim­ply because some­one has not been born.

The Pro-Choice folks claim that it should be a Woman’s right to chose, whether or not to have an abor­tion, when in real­ity she (as well as the Sperm Donor) have already made the choice when they had unpro­tected sex … PERIOD!

Well I’m not into S&M and do not care to suf­fer the con­se­quences of those who are, and there­fore I will not be among the (excuse the term but it is the only one that fits) morons, who chose to go against the pre­cepts of good com­mon sense and vote for a Social­ist who is hell bent on destroy­ing the Amer­ica I grew up with and want my chil­dren and their chil­dren to be able to enjoy.

Thank you, Darl Mills, Mt. Gilead

Dear Edi­tor,

The Sentinel’s recent arti­cle on Northmor’s efforts to pre­pare their stu­dents, teach­ers, and par­ents for the new Third Grade Read­ing Test showed just how much stress the Ohio leg­is­la­tors’ new man­date is caus­ing. The leg­is­la­tors had spent just nine days com­ing up with this new rule forc­ing stu­dents to pass the test or be retained in third grade. Fur­ther­more, they removed fund­ing for pro­grams that would help chil­dren much younger than third graders have a bet­ter chance at read­ing well. Seems hyp­o­crit­i­cal to me.

At least one kinder­garten in the Mt. Gilead dis­trict has 28 stu­dents, way more than a rea­son­able size to get chil­dren any­where near read­ing that first year. Turns out those lit­tle chil­dren, too, are being tested NOW to see if they could pass the end-of-kindergarten test. Again, this does not make sense. Instead of con­cen­trat­ing on teach­ing kids to read, this new approach trau­ma­tizes chil­dren and gives them a sense of inferiority.

Tanyce Addi­son, can­di­date for the Ohio Sen­ate, said when she went back to her home­town, she found peo­ple who had made C’s and D’s in school now run­ning busi­nesses and being respon­si­ble cit­i­zens. That would not have hap­pened had they been crip­pled by these tests. Stud­ies have shown that poverty is behind many of the prob­lems stu­dents have in stay­ing in school and doing well. One for­mer pre-K and kinder­garten teacher from inner city Colum­bus said kids come in not know­ing their names, their col­ors, or rote count­ing and lack­ing social skills. Of course teach­ers are expected to bring them up to speed despite these deficits and have them read­ing at grade level. Fur­ther penal­iz­ing kids who are poor reminded one cit­i­zen of the South in the ‘60s.Addison also noted that the leg­is­la­ture had locked out the police, fire­men, nurses, teach­ers, and main­te­nance work­ers in the bat­tle over SB5, refus­ing to lis­ten to them. Sher­rod Brown, on the other hand, invited a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of each group to a round table dis­cus­sion at which he asked them to tell him why unions were impor­tant to them. Nurses were con­cerned with staffing lev­els affect­ing patient safety. Police and fire­men cared about safety. Teach­ers were most inter­ested in class size, new text­books, up-to-date tech­nol­ogy, and less empha­sis on so many tests. Tanyce Addi­son vowed nobody would be locked out were she in the state senate.

Jill Grubb, Ben­ning­ton Township

To the Editor,

Will some­one please show us or tell us WHERE we can go to finally get Jus­tice in Mor­row County?

My name is Wilma Keen Zomes and I am the Chair­per­son of Cit­i­zens for Jus­tice in Mor­row County OH — and I sin­cerely hope that you print this let­ter! There are over 300 mem­bers in Mor­row County who are tired of the injus­tices being com­mit­ted by the Com­mon Pleas Judge, the Pros­e­cut­ing Attor­ney, Children’s Ser­vices and espe­cially by the CSEA.

We have writ­ten to the Colum­bus Bar Asso­ci­a­tion, the Dis­ci­pli­nary Coun­sel, the Attor­ney Gen­eral and even to the Supreme Court of Ohio. We have sent suf­fi­cient evi­dence prov­ing cor­rup­tion, abuse of power and fraud being com­mit­ted by these elected and appointed officials.

By show­ing their fla­grant dis­re­gard for the law—their actions demon­strate that evi­dently they think they are above the law!

On August 2,2012, I sent a let­ter the Ohio Supreme Court and requested a Jus­tice Hear­ing. The Sec­re­tary for the Supreme Court replied in a let­ter on August 9, 2012 that stated, “…the board is a quasi-judicial body and serves to hear com­plaints filed by the appro­pri­ate inves­tiga­tive agen­cies regard­ing the alleged eth­i­cal mis­con­duct of Ohio lawyers and judges.” Alleged means “with­out­proof” — believe me; we have absolute — which means “free from imper­fec­tion and com­plete’ — proof of every state­ment we make.

At the begin­ning I asked the ques­tion of where or to whom we go to get the inves­ti­ga­tion of these offi­cials started in order to bring JUSTICE to the cit­i­zens of Mor­row County. If any­one has the answer — please con­tact us at Wilma Keen Zomes, Chair­per­son, Cit­i­zens for Jus­tice in Mor­row County OH, PO BOX 107, Chester­ville, Ohio 43317.

Thank you and may God Bless!

Wilma Keen Zornes, Chesterville

Posted by Taylor Kaser on Oct 9 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.