Published: September 09, 2009 04:51 pm      

Letters to the editor - Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009

Some sewer districts are abusing citizens

The Environmental Quality Service Committee is meeting at 10 a.m. Sept. 22 in the Statehouse (room not announced yet), and I am requesting that citizens across the state contact their representatives and senators and attend that meeting. The committee is going to study regional sewer districts – rights and powers.

If you are a victim of a regional sewer district, please plan to attend. There will be citizens there who will address the committee, as well as representatives from the regional sewer districts.

I will be addressing the committee and would appreciate your presence as a show of support. We must bring the abuse the citizens are receiving to the attention of the legislators. This month, we have homes in tax sale because the citizens are not paying the monthly bills for a service they do not have – a sewer lien placed on their property taxes for a sewer that they did not request and do not have.

Pat Robertson

Monticello

Use facts, logic to support opinion

It was rather ironic to read a column urging support for the current president while bashing the former one, considering all of the factual errors included.

First, at no point in President Obama’s campaign or presidency did “we all support” him and, according to Rasmussen, his approval rating has never reached 80 percent.

Second, he wasn’t “handed” anything. He willingly ran as a candidate for president. He should have known the economic status of the country, considering he was part of the Democratic-controlled Congress.

Furthermore, bashing former President Bush isn’t an effective way of trying to promote President Obama. Constantly telling us how bad the former administration was doesn’t make the country better. How about actually doing something about it?

Democrats control both houses of Congress. They have the lowest approval rating in congressional history. What have been their accomplishments?

And President Bush did not “start the war all on his own” or “without the approval of our government.” On Oct. 11, 2002, the U.S. Senate approved a resolution for war in Iraq 77-23 (29-21 among Democrats), after the House of Representatives approved the measure 296-133 (82-126 among Democrats). The facts speak for themselves.

No matter your political opinion, the Office of the President is to be respected. President Obama deserves the nation’s respect. But that does not equal blind support for his programs. Did Democrats support Bush when he was in office? That is a laughable thought.

The First Amendment gives us the right to debate and speak out against things we don’t agree with. Why is freedom of speech only allowed when the left is fighting for it?

President Obama’s approval rating is slipping because he is governing far left of center, a position most Americans don’t support. The majority of Americans don’t want government-run health care.

President Obama even admitted that UPS and FedEx do well, but the U.S. Post Office is always having problems. The government can’t run the Post Office effectively, so it certainly won’t be able to handle health care.

Disagree with me? Use facts and logic to prove it, and don’t bash former politicians. But if you do, that is your right under the First Amendment, a right that should not be silenced.

Eric Grzegorski

Kokomo