Published: September 28, 2009 08:25 am      

Letters to the editor, Sept. 27, 2009

Need health care reform

Dear editor,

I need prescription and health care reform in order to afford my asthma control medication.

Currently, I am unemployed and have no insurance.

I cannot afford my asthma medication because the cost of the two prescriptions together is more than $400. I can’t go to my regular doctor because the office visit is too costly.

I have asked Health and Human Services for assistance and they tell me there is nothing they can do. I just want to be able to afford my medications and be able to go to the doctor when I need to, and not just when I can afford to.

Is that asking too much?

Penny Serrato,

Aledo



Say ‘NO’ to our council.

Dear editor,

After a weekend trip to San Antonio, I found myself musing about other communities and comparisons to Weatherford.

The Texas travel explains each town’s history and sights to see. Our council just reversed their decision and gave the Doss Center $30,000 from the hotel/motel taxes to promote tourism. The Doss Center is not listed.

Llano has a population under 5,000, but has an active recycling program. We’re still haggling the details, after 10 years, to establish one. Llano is a Main Street city and has managed to attract a Budweiser warehouse.

We drove through Brackneridge Park in San Antonio and found it basically like it was 55 years ago when Sid lived there. The only improvements have been a lot of underbrush cleaned out and trails have been paved. No grandiose ball fields and lights to disturb people and animals.

Grace Cartwright developed the trails through Holland Lake Park for us to enjoy nature. How has our city treated her legacy?

We did NOT vote for the ball field because it was not part of the bond. We citizens voted against all proposals for Holland Lake and only approved Fire Station No. 4 and street projects. The money continuing to be spent on parks is by a councilmen that can’t stop spending money. The ‘citizens’ group that proposed and continues to defend the parks has forgotten one detail — in 2006, Weatherford did not have an $11 million shortfall.

Our taxes are increasing by a vote of 3-2 because we are too many: 1. $100,000+ salaries. 2. City vehicles. 3. Studies because the council will not make decisions. 4. Handouts to organizations that will not do fundraising. 5. Cosmetic projects that benefit only a small group.

Just say “NO” to our council.

Carla H. Johnson,

Weatherford



Focus on this

Dear editor,

Nationally, locally and personally we should be focusing on finding and returning to what made America great in the past (particularly as related to what has caused so many of our current problems — greed, dishonesty, emphasis on government entitlements, etc.).

Focusing on Democrats, Republicans, conservatives or liberals will not solve our main problems. All four of these groups have suffered failures and enjoyed some successes.

Focusing on the economy or health care alone is not the solution.

Our country began based on Christian faith and the Bible. Hard work, personal responsibility and honesty were founding principles of life.

Our problems are larger and more powerful than any particular political party, plan or program. The solutions must be similarly powerful.

Each of us should personally consider our behaviors and their affect on our families, cities, states and nation. We need to re-evaluate ourselves and then strive to influence our nation in every positive way that we can.

Solutions to issues such as greed, selfishness and dishonesty require God’s help.

We need to claim the promise in the Bible that, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Ps. 33:12)!

Dr. Bill Gilbert,

Weatherford



McCarthyism vs Republicanism:

Dear editor,

I thought McCarthyism died with old Joe, but hey, it’s alive and well in the form of “Repugnantism.”

Panic in the streets, “socialism and communism” again. Worked once, might work again.

Don’t let your kids go to school or watch TV, they might see and listen to a president they can be proud of. The Republicans can’t have that, my God, he is a black/white man. But you all — he is a MAN. One many of us can be proud of. He earned his the hard way.

As I watch and read the news with all the bull spit being strewn with lies and hoping people will believe them, some do. But the ones with common sense will not.

Many times our children are smarter than we are and they will know the difference. If you do not teach them the truth, they will grow up knowing their parents lied to them. But when all is said and done I guess the best thing to do it ignore them.

I heard someone say, “Never interfere with anyone intent on destroying themselves.” After all, Joe McCarthy destroyed himself and in the long run was hated for it, and our country was better when he was gone. We could be lucky again.

Evelyn Connaway,

Weatherford



Abortion Holocaust

Dear editor,

In a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, exception was voiced to a significant aspect of the stimulus package. According to the House version of the economic stimulus package, $87 billion is being earmarked for Medicaid help for states, focusing on a growth of “family planning services.”

Not only does this follow closely to the aggressive promotion of the American Abortion Holocaust proposed by the left wing socialists, but it also reclaims the failed philosophy that fewer children equates to stronger economic growth.

Economists are already predicting labor shortages in the next five years for the United States.

This philosophy, which was tried in Europe and Asia, has failed. Since this is a failed economic principle, the underlying thought is emerging — reproductive control at any and all stages of pre-birth development.

Once again, the liberal left wing, religious left socialists who run the country and society as a whole, are shoving their disregard for life at any stage of life.

So the American Abortion Holocaust continues.

Are there any Americans ‘with leadership ability” with enough intestinal fortitude to say enough is enough?

Clifford E. Ball Sr.

Springtown