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Say no to candidate's liberal agenda

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Letters to the Editor

Published: October 13, 2008

With 10th Congressional District candidate Daniel Johnson never having served in public office before, he has no voting record to go on.

But if you have ever heard him speak, which I have, or if you have read anything about him, you know that his mentor is former one-term U.S. Sen. (now lobbyist) Max Cleland.

Johnson worked for Cleland while he was in the Senate.

It would stand to reason that since Cleland is Johnson's mentor, the person that he looks up to and worked for, they probably share the same beliefs and values.

Let's look at Cleland's record while in Washington, the place where Mr. Johnson wants to go and carry out his liberal agenda.

Cleland voted no to penalize criminals who committed gun and drug violations, voted no to ban human cloning, voted no to ban partial birth abortion, voted no to limit welfare for illegal immigrants, voted no to require photo ID for voter registration, but voted yes to expand hate crimes to include sexual orientation.

This liberal voting record is why Cleland was a one-term senator from Georgia, and this is why the people of the 10th District need to keep Johnson at home practicing his law degree and not in Washington pushing the liberal agenda.

Gene Hollifield
Newton

U.S. must build its way back to prosperity

Social engineering and regulatory bumbling have caused and allowed events to occur that have wiped out individual savings and investments and will require millions of Americans to delay and even reverse retirement.

Most Americans don't mind going to work, continuing to work, or even returning to the workforce from retirement due to our recent economic Pearl Harbor. The problem is we will need some work to do.

We don't need any more economic stimulus that puts the Chinese to work by circulating dollars to China through Wal-Mart and other importers.

We need to put Americans to work repairing our broken and neglected infrastructure. We can improve the environment and become less energy dependent by making travel over our highways and bridges more efficient and making our water and sewer systems more sound, sufficient, and widespread.

We can help solve the effects of drought by increasing the supply of water behind new dams. Our diverse and enormous infrastructure needs are well documented.

The same federal government that overreached it's social authority and instigated the decades-long spending spree that has abruptly ended should now realize that we can't spend our way to prosperity.
As history has shown, we can build our way to stability and sustenance.

Eddie Neill
Hickory

Can't tax a country into prosperity

My fellow voters, some people still think the Democrats are more capable of dealing with the economy, and people are still giving Bill Clinton credit for a prosperous eight-year cycle over which he presided.

He didn't create it, he simply sat in the big chair and took the credit. Clinton deserves the credit for re-appointing Reagan appointee Alan Greenspan to chair the Federal Reserve.

That is about all.

Now we have Barack Obama, a socialist dressed up like a Democrat who espouses raising income taxes on those he thinks can afford it.

These are the same people who can actually create jobs.

Obama plans to do this to support his income redistribution plan all in the name of fairness, which is code for a socialist agenda.

The truly amazing thing is the public thinks this is a good idea.

People, you can't tax a country into prosperity.

Mac Musselwhite
President
North Carolina Federation
of Republican Men

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