Imagine parents going further into debt each November as they say sweetly, “We want our children to have a nice Christmas this year.” If they never paid it back, who would inherit that indebtedness? Democrats seem to be playing out that scenario with our children’s future.
Even if we taxed the wealthy at 100 percent of their annual incomes it would only fund government at current spending levels a little over one week. It would do nothing to pay down our national debt.
The bill Joe Biden brokered offers $1 in spending cuts to $40 in increased taxes. The appropriations bill for Hurricane Sandy victims passed by the Senate was so laden with “pork” that Republicans in the House could not pass it in good conscience.
Someone said the Democrats were the “adults” in the room at a recent fiscal deliberation. (Syndicated columnist) Donna Brazile made too many derogatory comments about Republicans to count in her Saturday column. The president himself, ridiculed Sen. Paul Ryan in his State of the Union speech for the budget he proposed — something Sen. Harry Reid has not done in over three years, and he has refused to bring a stack of budgetary measures to the Senate floor for open debate that passed in the House. It seems adults should be resolving problems not making them worse.
In her column, Ms. Brazile wrote: “A majority of House Republicans still wanted us to plummet into the financial abyss,” after her skewed account of how the failed deliberations of House and Senate leaders had played out. I think we have already plummeted as a result of out-of-control government spending, borrowing and regulatory practices that are destroying the prospects for real economic recovery. We are putting our children’s financial future at risk.
— Peggy Garcia
Goshen
Letters to the Editor
What are we leaving our kids?
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Safety along C.R. 35 is a concern
This letter is meant to bring awareness and hopefully corrections in regard to C.R. 35 in Elkhart County. Something needs to be done immediately to enforce the laws pertaining to the use of C.R. 35.
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Goshen should stick with ‘Redskins’
I must respond to the letter to the editor from Mr. Ron Chupp (The Goshen News, May 9). What’s in a name, Mr. Chupp? I too have a Native American heritage, and for some reason, I am not offended by the term Redskins, or brown skins or any other color of skins.
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More important issues than a nickname
I would like to, in the most respectful way possible, respond to Mr. Chupp’s letter (The Goshen News, May 9) regarding the ongoing debate over the term “Redskins” being used as the nickname and mascot for the Goshen school system.
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There is hope through God
May I share what happened to me after praying about the issue of whether to have guns carried by school authorities at Goshen High School. While calling out to God, my question was: Why have we as a nation come to trusting in government agencies, such as Homeland Security, rather than obeying the Constitution in what you have declared through our forefathers?
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Sheriff has this reader's support
This letter is in defense of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and in response to Shari Mellin’s letter (The Goshen News, May 8) about Sheriff Brad Rogers not obeying the laws related to anti-gun legislation
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‘Redskins’ nickname is offensive
The question posed (in the May 5 edition) was, “What’s in a Name?” In the case of the GHS (Redskins) mascot, it is insult, degradation, racism, and an ongoing slap-in-the face reminder of the disgusting manner in which my Native American ancestors were treated by Europeans.
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Millrace projects threaten a Goshen gem
The city of Goshen is in the 11th hour for the five Redevelopment Commission members to hear the voices of its residents concerning the millrace redevelopment proposals at its next meeting at 4 p.m. on May 14.
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We don’t need a community center
We want to keep this short and to the point. We keep reading articles and letters in the papers about the proposed community center in Goshen. Our question is why?
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Freedom-loving Americans want our country back
We are living in unprecedented times. The “America” of today is not the America that many of us grew up in.
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