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Defending Helms
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Published: August 4, 2008
Updated: 08/03/2008 08:30 pm
The purpose of this letter is to defend the late, great Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina. He definitely did represent the most reasonable people of North Carolina. However, the letter "Legacy" (July 25) was most unrepresentative. The writer stated that he had been here since 1978 and claimed to know all about North Carolina.
I have been disgusted by the way Massachusetts continues to re-elect unscrupulous people like Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Ted Kennedy.
HENRY L. YARBROUGH
Pfafftown
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A favorite conservative demand is for "smaller government and lower taxes." This sounds appealing, but you get what you pay for.
Smaller government means more food contamination and more home foreclosures. It means our children will pay for this war. Lower taxes turn millionaires into billionaires and shrink the middle class. Lower taxes mean fewer college loans and a collapsing infrastructure. It means corporations will continue to control our health care. Lower taxes mean more government debt and a devalued dollar.
Extreme conservatives want a government small enough to "drown in a bath tub." They support candidates committed to reducing government's authority to regulate special interests. That's what seven years of this administration has accomplished. Our democracy has been severely compromised by a conservative Congress and a castrated Justice department.
Rigid Republican politicians are incapable of adjusting to changing world events. They're pledged to an inflexible ideology resulting in costly policy mistakes. Heaven forbid that they should change their minds -- that would be flip-flopping! The president, Congress and their righteous fundamentalist supporters are truly God's "frozen people."
Tragically, their misjudgments have left us less safe.
JOSEPH J. CUTRI
Winston-Salem
McCain's Focus
Sen. John McCain's touting of the surge's success is akin to President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" five years ago. The Iraq incursion has already surpassed in length the very real successful World War II, with no end in sight.
In fact, neither McCain nor his fellow zealot in war, Bush, can define or has defined victory in Iraq. McCain's military bent sounds similar to John Wayne cowboyism.
The glories of war are consonant with his military upbringing. But, unlike Wayne, we're not in a movie in Iraq, nor do the American people want to remain in Iraq interminably.
McCain admits to a pedestrian appreciation of economic issues. This is blatantly demonstrated when he fails to comprehend that nations are economies for the peaceful well being of their citizens -- in this instance, American lives on the battlefield and American livelihoods at home.
McCain's focus on prolonging a problematic war for his cowboy constituency does not promote the general welfare of the American people, people everywhere or democracy here and across the globe.
MARCIALITO CAM
Winston-Salem
Think About It
I'm going to do what the letter writer says ("Two Things," July 29) and think about it -- for two seconds! Then I'm going to vote for Sen. John McCain in November!
BRUCE SPRINKLE
King
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