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Conservative ‘parasites’ ripped
I believe that ALL conservatives and Republicans in the USA should return their Relief Checks to the federal government so that they do not become “unproductive†... and “lazy welfare recipients†who are accepting “government hand-outs†and “something for nothing†as well as being “parasites†who are being “subsized†by the federal government which they HATE.
It is HYPOCRITICAL for conservatives and Republicans to accept help from the federal government when they constantly oppose such help for the middle and lower classes who truly need it and who they look down their noses at.
Now, they are in their shoes.
All of our allies in Western Europe and Canada have federal governments which do more to help their people than the USA does.
To quote Al Pacino in “And Justice For All†... “I have now concluded my opening statement.â€
STEWART B. EPSTEIN
Rochester, New York
Goodbye democracy? Dictatorship looming?
It is now obvious that the GOP and the president want a dictatorship.
The GOP fully supports Trump’s endless lies and scapegoating. They could put an end to it tomorrow — but they apparently agree with Trump’s attacks on truth, attacks on the free press, on our environment, on our social safety net, attacks on voting, on the poor and minorities, on governmental regulation — all of them.
When Trump finishes this destruction —he hopes to have total power and the GOP is clearly supporting him.
Aside from supporting the self-adoring man, Republicans are mistaken to think that the destruction of government programs will result in more freedom — no, it will result in less freedom, because corporations are quickly filling the power vacuum.
The corporate world is not democratic — it is authoritarian and it is amoral, like Trump. Their commitment is to profit, not people — not principle. They have no problem poisoning natural resources or using cancer causing agents or predatory practices as long as they make money. They have found their man, their executioner, in Trump.
Trump’s use of this crisis to buoy his ratings will hopefully fail — hopefully even his supporters will see the man for what he is — he is a talk-show host, a populist salesman, a circus-barker seeding division among the people.
Throw him out before he and the GOP destroy this democracy and stablish a monarchy, a one-party system that does not allow opposition— like the one this nation formed against.
JEFF BAKER
Asheville
Commissoner accused of inaccuracy in opioid story
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara made some assertions in the (Asheville) Citizen Times paper that were incorrect. She blamed Buncombe County’s opioid epidemic on pharma companies.
The CDC evidence shows that the local epidemic did not trend on the same timeline or on the same demographics as the state or national epidemic.
Therefore, the underlying causes aren’t the same as those for the state and nation.
Now that Sheriff (Quentin) Miller has released “nonviolent†prisoners into the population, more residences will be vandalized and robbed of their possessions.
His action did not serve to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The prison population was already isolated and had no chance of contracting the virus without outside contact. Thanks in advance.
SANJIT PATEL
West Asheville Neighborhood Alliance
Asheville
Exterminate the invisible enemy before it kills us
We been told we are at war with the infamous invisible coronavirus. But so far, all we see is that we are trying to save those already infected/wounded, which is, of course, a very important part in all wars.
But, we are not seeing a massive effort to kill the enemy before it enters the human body.
News on television have shown massive spraying against coronavirus in cities, by other nations, but we have not seen that done in America.
In war, the objective is to “kill the enemy before he kills you.â€
And obviously, this extremely dangerous enemy needs to be killed before it enters the human body.
Yet, we do not see much visible evidence that this country is on the attack against this murderous virus.
This invisible enemy could be anywhere, since it has been spreading around the world.
Our super smart human race has been playing with it in laboratories, GROWING IT!
To make it worst, our tax dollars paid for it!
This enemy has already taken more than 50,000 precious lives in America.
Wake up America! IT IS TIME TO ATTACK, AND ERADICATE THIS MENACE EVERYWHERE!
In doing so, we should take all safety pre-cautions, of course, in trying to exterminate this enemy in our homes, our vehicles, all business, offices, public buildings and everywhere else!
MANUEL YBARRA JR.
Coalgate, Okla.
The rug won’t cover that mountain
The Civil War was not about slavery or freeing the slaves. It was a tariff war imposed on the South by the North!
In 1860, the South accounted for almost 82 percent of the U.S. export business. The slaves were not brought into the U.S. by the old country man who may have had only a cow and a mule. The slaves were brought by those who had connections to governments.
In former times, Spain was one of the major explorer countries. Because of Spain, the whole of South America wound up with the Spanish language and customs — and Spain is also Roman Catholic, which all those countries now are.
The same situation came about with tobacco, possibly in Cuba, some explorer saw a native with a long tube-like apparatus with tobbaco in it, smoking.
They did not think of the harm this substance could cause the people, they only thought of the money, just like with the slaves.
The national Democrat Party has still got the black people in slavery. They only care for their vote at election time.President Trump asked the blacks, “What do you have to lose?â€
Hillary Clinton said, “We have to bring the blacks to heel.â€
Jim Crow Democrats support school choice for their kids, but deny it to everyone else. Democrat Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law and sent American job out of the country.
Trump has done more to aid black people than anyone. But they need to leave what the Democrats have been telling them. They need to stop fighting the police and laws. A black author did a study on crime, using FBI statistics. The study concluded that 90-plus percent of the time, when a black person was killed in a crime, it was another black person who did it.
All of this time, with many American citizens in need, the Democrats are signing illegal aliens up for driver’s licenses, school attendance, DSS services, food stamp, health care services — billions of dollars of U.S. citizens’ money.
Read the Jesuit oath recorded in 1913 — 107 years ago. The Jesuits are the real head of the Roman Catholic Church. The Jesuit general is the head of the Jesuits. He wears a short black robe. He is called the black pope! Georgetown University is Jesuit. Bill Clinton was Jesuit-trained. The Civil War came about from the Catholics in the North. The mafia came into the U.S. from Catholic countries.
TOM ROBINSON
Burnsville
Southerner’s legacy unfairly tarnished
On the nights of Wed., April 8, and Thurs., April 9, 2020, I would fall asleep, and find myself dreaming about those who spearheaded the meretricious evil agenda to marginalize and destroy the legacy of a man whose life is the personification of honor; “ the Honorable Edmund Kirby Smith.â€
Smith was a career United States officer in the Mexican-American War, served as professor of mathematics at West Point, 1866-1868 served as president of the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co., 1870-1875 served as chancellor of the University of Nashville, and in 1875 served as professor of mathematics and botany at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn.
He is credited with collecting and describing several species of plants native to Tennessee and his home state of Florida. He bequeathed his collection to the University of Florida. His papers have been collected at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Edmund Kirby Smith Papers)
During World War II, the 425-foot Liberty Ship, S.S. E Kirby Smith was built in Panama City, Fla., and named in his honor.In 1922, the state of Florida rightfully erected a statue honoring Smith in the National Statuary Hall Collection of the United States Capitol.
On March 19, 2018, Yankee-born Florida Governor Rick Scott signed legislation to replace the Cenotaph of Smith in Statuary Hall. The reason given was that Smith, too, was a Confederate general who served with distinction in the War for Southern Independence from 1861-1865, and was one of the last to surrender his troops on May 26, 1865.
Thus, followed the pandemic of Southern, social, cultural and heritage genocide spearheaded by Nikki Haley and the Northern Fake News Media. The greatest evil of all to justify this replacement, which is no different than the modus operandi of Reconstruction; is replacing the Smith cenotaph with civil rights activist, and educator Mary Bethune, a black woman, to justify this great evil aimed at the Southern white man.
I wonder what the family of Dr. Alexander Darns, aide de camp of General Smith thinks of this. (See Dr. Alexander Darnes of Jacksonville, Fla.). God bless you!
H.K.EDGERTON
Asheville
EDITOR’S NOTE: A “cenotaph†is a monument to someone buried elsewhere, especially one commemorating people who died in a war. Also, following his service in the Mexican–American War, it should be noted that Smith joined the Confederate States Army in the Civil War, and was promoted to general in the first months of the war.
How to escape from a time loop?
There is a strengthening movement in the country started by the political-correctness movement that wishes to transform American society into a “disciplining society†in which everyone monitors his and everyoneelse’s public behavior in order to stamp out politically incorrect behavior — and in order to make politically correct behavior the only acceptable behavior.
But is this the right way to treat others?
We all ahve watched movies about time loops, where a person is forced to live the same day over and over and over and over ... again until he learns to practice loving kindness toward others and to make himself useful to others.
Nowhere in those time loop movies, the best-known one being “Groundhog Day,†does the person trapped in a time loop learn that in order to escape the time loop, he must be politically correct and force others to be politically correct.
Political correctness is never mentioned.To escape from a time loop requires treaing others with loving kindness and making oneself helfpful to others.That’s the way the powers-that-be running the time loop want us to treat each other. Or else they may trap us in a time loop — until we learn the proper way to treat others.
And practicing political correctness will never help us escape a time loop.Only loving kindness and being helpful to others can do that!
So instead of our society creating a disciplinary society, each member of society should practice loving kindness toward others and being helpful to others!If we can do that ... we shall never get trapped in a time loop — or be scared of Judgment Day!
RICHARD D. POPE
Hendersonville
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