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Published: June 21, 2009
Many opponents of health-care reform scream "That's socialized medicine!" as if the phrase settles the issue. Millions of working Americans, however, are in dire need of some kind of health care (or medicine) and they aren't too particular about the word placed in front of it.
Socialized medicine. Antisocial medicine. Fascist medicine. Republican medicine. Democratic medicine. Coke medicine. Pepsi medicine. Tar Heel medicine. Wolfpack medicine. NASCAR medicine.
Who cares what it's called? Don't we care more that millions of hard-working Americans and their families have to do without it at all?
JEFF W. LEE
Walnut Cove
Propaganda campaign
During the past eight years, the media and the Democratic Party have waged an unprecedented "We hate Bush" propaganda campaign. Proving that propaganda works, the Democratic Party and the activist group ACORN won the 2008 election. The trick now is to get the party to realize that it won and move on to govern.
However, former Vice President Dick Cheney's articulate defense of the Bush administration policies seems to have hit a nerve with the Obama administration. CIA director Leon Panetta's charge that Cheney is "almost wishing" for an attack on the United States to make his point, that the United States is less safe under the Obama administration, is evidence of this nerve damage.
Besides being a ridiculous charge, in my opinion, I believe that the United States is actually safer, in that an attack on our country at this time would be counter-productive. It is pretty clear that Obama and the Democratic-controlled House and Senate are capable of causing more damage to our country than our enemies could dream of. Time will tell.
JOHN L. TARN
Dobson
Tea party people
Some letter writers were upset that the Journal didn't give front-page coverage to the recent Tea party ("Surprised," "Interesting contrast," June 13; "Represent its citizens?" June 12). But why would the Journal waste its limited space on a group of people who cannot even state, with any sort of intelligence, what they are protesting about?
I haven't been to a Tea party, but I bet it is just a bunch of white people who are mad that we have a black president. How would I come to this conclusion? Well, former President George W. Bush doubled the national debt during the eight years he was in office, and what did we see of the Tea party people then? Nothing; not even a peep.
These people are nothing more than right-wing, Fox News-watching, Rush Limbaugh-thinking Republicans who hide behind false issues. I'm with the Journal; ignore them and maybe they will go away.
LINDSEY BETTY
Winston-Salem
Holding the money
The line "If the city gets the grant, it would still need money to build the streetcar system" in the June 15 article, "Money needed for streetcar project," made me want to hide my checkbook. I just know some city official will decide that we taxpayers are somehow holding that money.
Please. Not another "we've got to keep up with a nearby city." Does Greensboro have a streetcar?
LUCY B. VESTAL
Rural Hall
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