Proud to support Motsinger
I am proud to be a strong supporter and good friend of Elisabeth Motsinger, candidate for Fifth Congressional District.
Unlike so many politicians, Elisabeth is clear and consistent on her positions on important issues even though some are considered controversial. She believes all people should have access to affordable health care, and that women should be able to make decisions about their health issues. Elisabeth thinks the only way we will ever help those in poverty is to pay a livable wage. She also believes in protecting federal money for public education. Because she does speak clearly and consistently on these and other issues, her campaign has integrity.
Given the fact that members of Congress are so polarized and unable to work in concert, Elisabeth’s ability to work with people with different perspectives is a real asset. For the past six years she has worked in harmony with the Republican Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board members, and they with her. Compromise and cooperation are positive concepts to Elisabeth.
By nature, Elisabeth is an inclusive rather that exclusive person. She is open to and not threatened by people of varying opinions and differing lifestyles. Unlike her opponent, she will represent all the people in the Fifth District.
There have been some fine Democratic candidates vying for this office, but I am especially exited this year to have a woman-to-woman race.
Elisabeth Motsinger has long ago proven herself in Forsyth County, and I will proudly vote for her. Please join me.
ANNE GRIFFIS WILSON
Winston-Salem
Government benefits
I am a leech. The government has paid about $250,000 to provide my family with three hip replacements, one knee replacement and one cataract removal.
Mitt Romney is a leech. It takes a leech to know a leech. The country that Romney wants to be president of has provided him with the facilities to make hundreds of millions of dollars and he sends millions to the Cayman Islands to avoid paying for these facilities.
The government provides airports so that he can use his plane and he sends his money to the Cayman Islands. The government provides him roads so that he can use his cars (after he uses his car elevator to lift his cars to highway level) and he sends his money to the Cayman Islands. The government provides him with security so that he can walk freely to and from his cars and airplane and he sends his money to the Cayman Islands. Romney is a leech — a huge leech.
JIM BRANDON
Winston-Salem
A disgrace
This letter is in response to the Journal's endorsement of President Obama.
It is apparent in everything that Obama says and does that he does not like capitalism, and he chooses to continually demonize successful business people. To say that “the economy is slowly recovering”' is completely debatable. Under Obama's presidency, the unemployment rate has remained above 8 percent until this past month, where miraculously it finally fell to 7.8 percent. Median income has dropped more than $4,000 per household. More households have fallen into poverty. More people are on food stamps.
The American people have been continually deceived by this administration. The deception is on a major scale. The health-care mandate will start the largest tax increase imposed on American citizens in the history of this country. The majority of Americans are against this intrusion in their lives.
It is hard to come up with one government agency that runs efficiently and cost effectively. The government will never be able to run health care in such a way.
On foreign policy, the incident in Libya has highlighted how inept this administration is. It also highlights how dishonest Obama and his administration are.
Lastly, Obama has tried and succeeded in dividing this country along racial, ethnic, religious, gender and class lines. He said in his 2008 campaign that he would bring the country together. He has done everything but that. Barack Obama is a disgrace to the presidency and does not deserve another term.
BRIAN FINNERTY
Kernersville
A strong supporter
I support and strongly recommend a vote to re-elect Forsyth District Court Judge Victoria Roemer this November. She has consistently proven herself to be objective and has shown fairness throughout the years I have known and worked with her.
She's a strong supporter of those in uniform and works side by side with those whose lives are dedicated to protecting the citizens of Forsyth County. Her continued and unwavering dedication to finding the truth in cases before her and making a sound and solid judgment based on those findings is why we all need to cast our ballots to re-elect Judge Roemer.
J. SCOTT HASSELL
Winston-Salem
False implications
The title of the Journal's Oct. 20 article “Dem had ties to guru” implies that the Journal finds fault with Elisabeth Motsinger's spiritual search some 30 years ago. The article’s structure further implies that the paper agrees with Chad Nance's harmful accusation that Motsinger was involved in a cult. By concluding his piece with an accounting of the unfortunate history of the Indian teacher, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, John Hinton does Motsinger a great disservice, as if to link her to Rajneesh, when she clearly states that she broke ties with him three decades ago.
Although no expert on Motsinger's political views, I have heard her speak several times on various issues. I find her to be a grounded, values-oriented woman who has been willing to step up and speak out for two terms on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education and now is running a clean, centrist campaign that gives many of us a choice.
I'm aghast that the structure of Hinton's inflammatory article does not end with Elisabeth's significant 25 years as a member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winston-Salem.
This article insults all of us who look outside the box for answers in our 20s. The great blessing of having been a spiritual seeker in Motsinger's case is that the compassion she developed along the way underlies her service to others in her work as a physician assistant and to all of us who now seek a positive progressive representative in our hopes for a better world.
KIRTAN COAN
Winston-Salem
Rough treatment
On May 2, 2012, about 1,000 of Forsyth County's most-engaged citizens gathered at the Benton Convention Center to celebrate the winners of this year's Winston-Salem Foundation ECHO Awards. I was among the crowd and joyfully watched members of the youth-led organization El Cambio receive this award. My friends Wooten Gough, Uriel Alberto, Moises Serrano and Giovanna Hurtado were duly recognized for their courageous efforts on behalf of undocumented students in Northwest N.C. I am so proud of the warm reception Forsyth County gave these young people and thrilled to see the enthusiastic response to their work.
Rockingham County, on the other hand, should be ashamed of its treatment of these same students (“After movie viewing, 'joke' turns into tense moment,” Oct. 10). I hope James Kallam, the county commissioner who placed a death wish on Moises Serrano, will receive his just dessert and be prosecuted to the highest degree.
If not, I hope he’ll come to next year's ECHO Awards so he can explain to Forsyth County's residents what he might possibly have been thinking. Shame on this commissioner and Sam Page, the sheriff of Rockingham County, as well, for their failure to understand the responsibilities that come with the power they wield.
MARY DICKINSON
Winston-Salem
Dangers of fracking
To those who believe that concerns about the dangers of fracking are overblown and the need for natural gas is more important: Are they willing to buy a house in a fracking area with well water — and live in it? Drilling companies will not pay for trucking in water if wells are damaged.
Or will they buy a house downstream from the slurry retainment dam of Duke Energy at Belews Creek — and live in it? Insurance companies will not insure against foundation damage from fracking-related earthquakes, but that should not concern them, because if a quake causes the dam to break their house, those within it will be swept away in the ensuing flow of slurry.
If fracking begins, there should be houses for sale cheap, since real-estate values will decrease. But be prepared to arrange alternative financing since most banks will not lend money on real estate in fracking areas.
NANCY W. BOLES
Walnut Cove
LTE #3 A Disgrace.
ReplyDeleteAccording to a recent article in FORBES: 10/23/2012 @ 9:08AM |533 views.
National Income Rose Under Obama, But State Picture Mixed.
Controversial, click-worthy headlines might tell you Mitt Romney will destroy social security, or President Barack Obama is making the U.S. a socialist nation, but median incomes in the U.S. show that on average, Americans earn more now than they did when Obama took office on January 20, 2009.
The sluggish economy has median national household incomes falling to around 2007 levels, but have risen since January 2009 when Obama took the helm of the world’s most powerful economy.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s historical income tables (table H-8 used in this case, using 2011 dollars), median household incomes were $49,777 in 2009 and rose to $50,054 last year. This year’s numbers are not yet available.
Largest tax in history?, well only if premiums are considered a tax, so that tax will only apply to those without healthcare and have to purchase it. Do you have health care? And do you consider your premiums a tax? Having health insurance in this day and age is only taking personal responsibility, unfortunately not everyone does. It seems ironic to complain about people taking personal responsibility and then to complain about it when they are mandated to do it. We are mandated to take personal responsibility for car insurance, why not health insurance. Certainly our health is more important than our vehicles. The tax as a % of GDP is roughly equal to the Bush tax of 1990, less than the Clinton tax of 1993, less than the Oil Windfall tax of 1980, the tax increases of 1966, 1982, the excess profits tax of 1950, the temporary surcharge of 1968, the revenue act of 1950, and the revenue act of 1951.
Dividing the nation? John Sununu @ General Colin Powell and other comments, Sarah Palin's shuck and jive remark, Newt's the food stamp president, these aren't "dog whistles," they are train whistles that everyone hears. With all the "disgraceful" people in this nation, it's becoming more and more difficult to calls ourselves "exceptional." We have disgrace in ALL our politics.
At least Sununu could never be president.
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Data compiled by Sentier Research found that since the economic recovery technically began in June 2009, median household income has dropped 5.7 percent. As of August, that median income was $50,678 -- also down 1.1 percent from the month prior.
And since Obama took office in January 2009, the median income has fallen 8.2 percent, from $55,198 to its present figure.
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Also, remember when the unemployment rate suddenly, and without explanation, dropped just a few weeks ago? It's now been learned that several areas of California didn't report their unemployment figures properly.
Of course, Rush, our favorite forum NW, says there was no way that the Labor Department's figures could be wrong. After all, it's headed by a political appointee made by Obama. More liberal, inaccurate 'dribble' coming out of Rush's mouth.
Let's face it. Whenever a Democrat takes over the Oval, the government becomes one huge 'Culture of Corruption'.
Concerning the 'shuck and jive' remark, Chris Matthews of liberal MSNBC used the same words before her.
DeleteWith Obama's silly 'Romnesia' remark, he's dragging himself down into the ghetto on his own. He doesn't need any help from Palin to end up there.
By nature, Elisabeth is an inclusive rather that exclusive person.
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You gotta to be kidding. Liberals are some of the biggest, bigoted bullies on this planet.
That is a completely unwarranted, unfounded, uninformed, psychologically mirrored generalization with no basis in knowledge or reality whatsoever. Unless you know Elizabeth and John personally as I do, then I would suggest you stop showing your ignorance. If you prance around your ass as much as your ignorance, no wonder people leer at it. Are there liberal bullies? Yes, of course there are. Are there liberal bigots, definitely. There are even liberal racist. But to characterize Elizabeth Motsinger as any of the above doesn't pass any tests of reason, understanding or knowledge, not that you care about logic or reason. You thrive on limbic emotional response, a primitive but understood human characteristic that has survived in a small, ever diminishing subsection of the population.
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