Financial strength
Teddy Roosevelt is famous for saying we should speak softly and carry a big stick. Obviously, he was referring to the military when he said that. We have the greatest military in the world now and we need to maintain that status.
However, his words are still true in another significant way today. The “big stick” we don't have is financial strength. We are a debtor nation with $14 trillion in debt, over $1 trillion deficits, increased spending and no plans to fix this. Leaders are not mendicants.
We could be energy independent today, but we are cowed by the environmentalists. The energy jobs we could create through our natural-resource development would kick-start our economy.
Trade and tariff restrictions would either open markets or close ours to imports.
Buy American. Budget analysis would identify wasteful, feel-good, ineffective federal programs so we can cut them.
Taxes can be simplified and made fairer, if someone has the guts to ignore class-warfare charges and make everyone a taxpaying part of our society. How about a flat 18 percent for everyone with the first $25,000 tax exempt? Everybody has a dog in the fight then.
This can only be done by one man, Mitt Romney. He has the experience. President Obama's career is based on spending other people's money. Other than the money he spends to feed and clothe his family, he has never created a job.
We have no choice. We cannot afford liberal fantasies anymore.
KEN HOGLUND
Clemmons
The altar of politics
There’s no telling who will win the presidential election, but during the election process, I’ve learned quite a bit about evangelicals, who largely seem to be embracing Mitt Romney.
They do so despite the fact that Romney has based his campaign on unrepentantly telling lies. They do so even though Romney follows a religion that many of them, like the Rev. Billy Graham, have long claimed to be a cult. They do so despite the fact that his opponent spent his adult life in a Christian church and says he has been saved by Jesus Christ.
They have made abortion and same-sex marriage issues of their highest concern, rather than teaching salvation and caring for the poor. They seek to impose their beliefs on people who don’t share them, all the while ranting about liberals who seek to impose their beliefs of people who don’t share them. In doing so, they’ve turned their main issues of concern into idols and placed them above the love their God teaches and the free will that they claim to be our birthright.
They’ve abrogated women to the role of breeding cattle. They care more about a clump of unfeeling, unthinking cells, smaller than a pinpoint, than living, suffering people.
No matter which way the election goes, I’ll remember what I’ve learned about evangelicals, who have compromised their faith to become idolaters at the altar of politics.
“Evangelical” is no longer a religious description. It’s a political description.
PHIL RONALD TURNER
Winston-Salem
Warm and caring
I am writing to support Elisabeth Motsinger for 5 th Congressional District. I know Elisabeth because of her work as a physician assistant. She has taken care of my mother and her difficult diabetes case for about a dozen years.
Elisabeth is warm and caring, just the kind of person we need to look out for us in Congress. I hope you will join me and vote for Elisabeth Motsinger on Election Day.
SHEROLD D. HOLLINGSWORTH
Winston-Salem
Romney’s investments
When did it become OK to lie?
Mitt Romney has invested in at least 10 Chinese companies and still has holdings in some. One pirated Windows & Office software, one was accused of being a brutal sweat shop, one does business with the Iranian energy sector and one is a major bank. Wow, to hear him tell it, it’s President Obama that does business with China. And all the while he has been making his millions that he has socked away in some interesting, tricky and even highly suspect ways.
When Romney was with Bain Capital, he got a federal bailout and ended up bargaining his way out of paying off the loan in full. The taxpayers lost at least $10 million on that deal through him not paying the FDIC (the federally funded bank insurance that we, the taxpayers pay for) back in full. All the while, he and other top executives got very hefty bonuses.
Another example of how he added to his millions at our expense; guess that is why 47 percent of us just don’t get it; we are leeches on society, to hear him tell it.
He is part of the problem; not the solution.
DENA CHRISTINE
Pinnacle
Important questions
Anyone supporting Mitt Romney on the basis of his economic program should seek cogent answers to the following questions before voting to make a risky change at the top of our government:
How can Romney cut taxes by $5 trillion, increase military spending by $2 trillion and still balance the budget as promised?
How will the Romney tax cuts create jobs when the same policy attempted by President Bush lost jobs while busting the budget?
How can an American energy independence policy emphasizing increased production of fossil fuels, including coal for electric power generation, not add significantly to our already disastrous global warming problem?
Thus far Romney has not even addressed these questions, let alone answered them.
JAMES G. PHILLIPS
Mount Airy
The right choice
I have followed with interest your recent coverage of the election. However, one key fact has been underemphasized in your reporting. Please remind your readers that our current president has had four years to dig us out of the economic slump, and has not done so. In fact, President Obama’s “spend now, pay later” policies have worsened the recession. Obama has brought us ever-increasing debt and sky-high unemployment.
Mitt Romney has spent his life in business. Romney understands that the road to recovery is to unleash the spirit of American free enterprise. Only by lowering taxes and removing unnecessary regulations can we recover the prosperity and opportunity that should be the birthright of every American.
Mitt Romney is the right choice for our nation.
MICHAEL STEVENS
Winston-Salem
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