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EDITORIAL

Bright beacon in health care night
Members of Congress are wading through thousands of pages of information to reshape health care in the United States.

Letters  (top)

SALARIES: Stop the meddling
I am as upset about the outrageous compensation the corporate executives are receiving as the next person. However, one question continues to nag at me. These executives have legally binding contracts outlining their salaries and other compensations, right? Doesn't it bother anyone that our government is circumventing legal contracts? Wow! Wake up, people! We are heading away from one of the premises that makes America what it is. It's called free enterprise. Call it what you want. Marxism, Socialism or Communism. It is where this country is headed if we don't stop Obama and Pelosi and the far left!

FLIERS: It's just garbage
I am writing in regards to the filers placed all over doors in Kootenai County. I am not looking for more garbage to throw away. Next time, keep your trash to yourself.

MIDTOWN: Points to congestion
While going through the "new" Midtown for the first time, I was aghast at how dangerous the experience was. Traffic roaring past cars trying to park and/or sight see. Harrowing might be a better word.

JOBS: Stop exporting them
When are the CEOs and the government going to wake up? Electrolux is moving to Mexico, putting 850 Iowans out of work. The repercussions from this will magnify into 2,000 jobs lost in an already floundering economy. The only way we are going to balance the trade deficit is for people to go to work, pay their taxes, and buy goods made in the USA.

BOOKS: Schools support liberalism
In response to the Belmonts' letter I need to say at the outset that I respect their right to their point of view, but I vehemently disagree with it. It is obvious by some of their comments that they think teachers and educational administrators, (which they call professionals) should make the important to decisions about what our children are taught (and that those same children's parents should have little say). This is the liberal vein of thought and is the root problem of our public educational system today. Most parents have abdicated their responsibility to raise their own children to a (by far mostly) liberal school system. Now this would not be a huge problem if this same liberal system taught factual, unbiased material in an unbiased manner, but this is sadly not the case.

WARMING: Letter needs correction
In my letter printed on Nov. 4, I described Martin Hertzberg as having no meteorological training. That is incorrect. I had sent in a correction, but the older version was printed.

HEALTH: Personal story proves need
We need national health insurance with single payer option. My son was injured in an automobile accident by a 17 year old girl on a cell phone. He has been unable to work and had to go bankrupt to pay his medical bills. He has lost his house and everything else. I am a widow on Social Security and a small pension and am forced to support him. I can't let him live in the street and go hungry. We need national health insurance now.

HEALTH: Take 'profit' out of it
We are counting on you to change our current health care system and help the poor and middle class citizens who can no longer afford "for profit" health care. Single payer health care should never have been dropped from discussion and I feel the only way we'll ever see true reform is to take "profit" out of the system, making insurance companies "non-profit" organizations. You have a moral obligation to the citizens of this country that has been ignored for too long for the sake of big money for a few. It's wrong!

HEALTH: Fix the fraud first
Before we can let Obama implement his so called health care plan, he must first get rid of the $60 billion a year in health care fraud. That $60 billion would help a lot of really sick folks in need of care.

LCDC: Only benefits the few
Everybody who has ever spent some time thinking about LCDC knows it is, as implemented, only good for a few, but bad for everybody else. To begin with, why would an agency hide its proper name? Urban Renewal Agency is its proper name. Could it be because there is no urban or renewal in their program? Open country is not urban, and open country does not need renewal.

LCDC: Not really tax neutral
The article in the Cd'A Press saying the LCDC is tax neutral is an insult to the intelligence of the public. It doesn't take a master's degree in economics to figure that out. Addition and subtraction is sufficient to get the real picture.

PETS: Clinics great for area
Well, I have had the great opportunity of participating in two cat spay and neuter clinics organized by Claudia from River City Pet Rescue. These clinics showed me the awesome commitment and love that people of Coeur d'Alene have for animals. The clinics alone have spayed and neutered over 300 cats. When you realize that a male and female cat over the span of seven years can produce over 400,000 cats, the clinics are extremely beneficial to our community.

FLU: Not a big deal
I threw up my peace sign but waved flagrantly at the passersby as The Press drove a ginormous bandwagon of swine flu vaccinoligists (they must have studied vaccines in depth) like Tyler Wilson, through my living room. My stomach boiled and bubbled, I began to feel queasy. For a moment I thought I might have the flu but these symptoms were rooted in a different disease. Do we have a vaccine for ignorance?

DOG: Culprit should confess
I hope this isn't too "inflammatory" to be considered, but I feel it needs to be said. Somebody shot my dog and that same somebody is probably still giggling like a giddy schoolgirl over it. I don't get the joke, perhaps I missed the punch line.