Polls show that Republicans and Democrats are losing ground with the American citizen. Americans are finally waking up and realizing that neither party has represented them for some time. Both have refused to exercise any economic common sense, have expanded the scope of government control over areas previously left to the states and to individuals under our Constitution, and worked harder to enrich themselves and get re-elected than they have to do the right thing.
It's time for term limits, a line-item-veto power for presidents, dismantling the domains of czars and agencies intruding into our lives, financial responsibility, securing our borders and respecting our own laws regarding illegal immigrants, recognizing that Muslim extremists hate us and our way of life and demand nothing less than a world under their rule, and for replacing political correctness with common sense.
We are on a path to an America that neither we nor those who died for our freedoms would recognize. It is late, but with hope, not too late to wake up and demand that our representatives do the right thing for a change.
Do we or do we not want a future America where our great-great-grandchildren will still speak English, not be enslaved by our debts and be free to worship God? If we do want these things, then decisions must be made now and actions taken to ensure them. It does not come free.
DAN PRIVETT
Lewisville
Congressional authority
Can someone please cite for those of us who read these opinions the appropriate articles, sections and amendments to the U.S. Constitution which give the Congress the authority to do the following?
1. Enter the health-insurance business and compete directly with private enterprise.
2. Mandate to individuals and private enterprise that they must carry/provide coverage and the type of coverage that they must carry/provide.
3. Levy a direct tax upon individuals (for failure to carry adequate coverage) that is not based on income or is not apportioned to the states based on the census.
Without direct constitutional empowerment to enact the above, I suggest that the action of the Congress to push health-care reform containing these provisions is illegal under the 10th Amendment and should not be contemplated. Without any constitutional authority to enact the above, I suggest that any legislator assenting to these provisions should be held accountable for violating their sworn oaths and removed from office.
If health-care reform is the right thing to do, legislators should not circumvent the Constitution to get it done. They should first amend the law under the provisions of the law to empower themselves to do so.
BARTON L. TIFFANY
Winston-Salem
New motivation for schools
I am writing to comment on the Nov. 1 New York Times article you reprinted, "States lower academic proficiency standards." New motivation is needed to get our public schools to teach our children properly and deserve the tax money we, the taxpayers, are forced to give.
The Libertarian Party has it right when stating that competition is a good way to motivate public schools (which would be competing with private and charter schools for money) to actually teach our children instead of dumbing them down and passing them along to graduation without the ability to read or write.
ZEKE COCHRAN
Kernersville
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